Ana Positive: Cracking The ICD-10 Code

Weba positive result on an ana test means that antinuclear antibodies were found in your blood.

Weba positive test for ana may help determine the specific type of autoimmune disease that is affecting a patient.

A negative test for ana can assist health care.

Weba positive ana test (ana +) is virtually a sine qua non for the diagnosis of systemic lupus erythematosus (sle) since more than 95% of patients have a positive.

You may get a positive result if:

Webin most cases, a positive ana test indicates that your immune system has launched a misdirected attack on your own tissue — in other words, an autoimmune.

You have a different type.

You have sle (lupus).

Ana testing can help in the differential diagnosis of many autoimmune disease states, including systemic lupus erythematosus.