Limitations of antinuclear antibody tests (HEp-2) are overcome with the autoimmune target test (IT-1) in systemic lupus erythematosus

LH Jearn, DA Kim, TY Kim - The Journal of Rheumatology, 2009 - jrheum.org
Controversy concerning the antinuclear antibody (ANA)-positive rates in patients with systemic
lupus erythematous (SLE) has persisted, and many efforts in improving the test quality …

Level of anticitrullinated peptide/protein antibody is not associated with lung diseases in rheumatoid arthritis

LH Jearn, TY Kim - The Journal of Rheumatology, 2012 - jrheum.org
The correlation between anti-cyclic citrullinated peptide (CCP) and lung diseases in
patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) has been the subject of attention since anti-CCP was …

[HTML][HTML] Centromere protein-F-like pattern in a patient with rheumatoid arthritis

K Hur, LH Jearn, TY Kim - Annals of Laboratory Medicine, 2019 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Dear Editor, Autoantibodies to centromere protein-F (CENP-F), which is closely associated
with cell proliferation, are known to be a specific marker for malignant tumors [1-3]. However, …

Should the external quality assessment sample of antinuclear antibodies be of a typical monospecific pattern?

LH Jearn, TY Kim - Clinical chemistry and laboratory medicine, 2010 - degruyter.com
In the article by Van Blerk et al.(1), we became aware of efforts on external quality assessment
(EQA) of antinuclear antibody (ANA) tests. Because we share a similar research interest, …

AIT test has no problem in the detection of anti-ribosomal P

LH Jearn, TY Kim - Arthritis research & therapy, 2009 - Springer
Page 2 of 2 (page number not for citation purposes) colleagues’ article. We agree that anti-Rib-P,
just like anti-Sm or anti-nDNA, could be considered an effective marker antibody in the …

Anti-Sm faces a threat to its reigning position as the marker antibody

LH Jearn, TY Kim - Rheumatology international, 2011 - Springer
We read the report by Al-Jabri and colleagues regarding an anti-Sm that surprisingly
showed a high frequency of 83.3% in Omani patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE)[1]. …

Reevaluation of antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies

LH Jearn, TY Kim - The Journal of the Korean Rheumatism …, 2004 - pesquisa.bvsalud.org
OBJECTIVE: Antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody (ANCA) is known to be associated with
vasculitides. But recently ANCA has been reported in some chronic inflammatory diseases …

Anti-Jo1 antibody in polymyositis/dermatomyositis is still closely associated with lung rather than joints

LH Jearn, TY Kim - The Journal of Rheumatology, 2015 - jrheum.org
We read with interest the paper by Klein, et al1 containing detailed data about arthritis in
patients with idiopathic inflammatory myopathy (IIM). The authors reported that arthritis was a …

The influence of anti-cyclic citrullinated peptide on anticentromere antibody-positive rheumatoid arthritis patients

LH Jearn, TY Kim - Arthritis research & therapy, 2010 - Springer
Other diseasesd 5 42 aAnticentromere detected by autoimmune target (AIT) test (ImmunoThink
Co., Seoul, Republic of Korea). bAnti-CCP detected by second generation ELISA (Axis-…

The chaos of serologic markers in interstitial pneumonia with autoimmune features can be corrected by the laboratory physician

LH Jearn, TY Kim - Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine …, 2020 - degruyter.com
We have experienced many connective tissue disease (CTD)-related autoantibodies for more
than three decades in our hospital in preserving many patients with CTD as a single unit …