Announcements

Mon, 02 Sep 2024

NEW PUBLICATION: Reflecting on a decade of the international consensus on ANA patterns (ICAP): Accomplishments and challenges from the perspective of the 7th ICAP workshop
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1568997224000995

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Mon, 10 Jun 2024

17th Dresden Symposium on Autoantibodies
Save the date for the 17th Dresden Symposium on Autoantibodies (September 9-12), 2025. The information will be available at: www.gfid-ev.de

Fri, 03 May 2024

14th International Congress on Autoimmunity (Ljubljana -Slovenia)
https://autoimmunity.kenes.com/

Fri, 26 Apr 2024

CURSO INTERNACIONAL DE ENFERMEDADES AUTOINMUNES: ENFOQUE CLÍNICO Y DE LABORATORIO
The first international course on autoimmune diseases with a clinical and laboratory focus by the Asociación Bioquímica Argentina (ABA) starts on May 6, 2024.
For more information access:
https://aba-online.org.ar/autoinmunidad-internacional

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Thu, 06 Jul 2023

NEW PUBLICATION:
ICAP Smartphone App – connecting to our new generation of users

https://iuis.org/activities/qas-newsletter-contribution-june-2023/?utm_source=IUIS+Newsletter&utm_campaign=c3638947f6-IUIS_Newsletter_Q4_2017_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_a910cd5922-c3638947f6-120426861

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Sat, 08 Apr 2023

NEW PUBLICATION:
"Analytical aspects of the antinuclear antibody test by HEp-2 indirect immunofluorescence: EFLM report on an international survey".
https://www.anapatterns.org/publications.php

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Sat, 08 Apr 2023

NEW PUBLICATION:
"Detection of antinuclear antibodies: recommendations from EFLM, EASI and ICAP".
https://www.anapatterns.org/publications.php

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Fri, 10 Jun 2022

The complete translation draft to Ukrainian goes online.

Tue, 01 Feb 2022

The complete translation draft to Japanese goes online.

Mon, 10 Jan 2022

NEW PUBLICATION:
"The International Consensus on ANA Patterns (ICAP) in 2021—The 6th Workshop and Current Perspectives”
https://academic.oup.com/jalm/article/7/1/322/6498242?guestAccessKey=c7ece6c7-ecd2-42a4-ab14-bb35d97...

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Sat, 23 Oct 2021

Release new FAQ entitled "IFA changed from coarse granular to homogenous"

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Sun, 10 Oct 2021

ICAP guidelines to report ANA is published:

How to report the antinuclear antibodies (anti‑cell antibodies) test on HEp‑2 cells: guidelines from the ICAP initiative by von Muhlen et al. Immunologic Research https://doi.org/10.1007/s12026-021-09233-0

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Mon, 20 Sep 2021

ICAP Newsletter 1

A revised Nomenclature and Classification tree posted today. For details on the changes, see our first ICAP Newsletter.

Click to download ICAP Newsletter

Mon, 09 Aug 2021

6th ICAP workshop to be held in Dresden September 6 immediately before the 15th Dresden Symposium on Autoantibodies (September 7-10, 2021) - https://www.gfid-ev.de/dsa.htm

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Thu, 18 Feb 2021

The complete translation draft to Korean goes online.

Fri, 24 Jul 2020

ICAP training Module 1 available.
Our first ICAP training module is now online. To get to it, you have to register, login, and follow the training icon on the top menu.

Read user comments for training Module 1:

User's comments for training Module 1

8/14/2020 In my lab we are frequent users of the ICAP website and I was delighted to receive your email, because training material on IFA in general is VERY scarce - and developed by ICAP, it was bound to be good. I've been through the first training module now and it's brilliant! Kind regards and thank you for your efforts,

Trine-Line Korsholm
Aarhus University Hospital, Denmark

8/17/2020 Congratulation to this excellent training module. learned something new with the test. You all did a great job which will be a great enrichment for ANApatterns.org. Nice regards,

Manfred Herold
Medical University of Innsbruck, Austria

9/25/2020

Thank you!! Wonderful course!

This First training is very practice with hot topics in the area. Excellent exercise.

Good basic overview of HEp-2 procedure.

It is a very helpful course for new and experienced laboratory technicians in the processing of ANA. It gives a full example of procedure and some valuable tips for an optimal ANA interpretation.

I enjoyed the training.

Excellent training module. Very lucid and helpful.

Thank you all for this very important initiative. It certainly will help to improve the performance of our HEp-2 cell assays and to capacitate our analysts. If this could be available in other languages it would help to use for all our collaborators. Stay safe!

Perhaps I was expecting microscopic training particularly in expert level. what I found was a thoroughly explained technique very good beginning! Thank you all for your dedication, excellent educational web site.

Very detailed and good for beginners, would be nice to have more questions for pattern recognition including cytoplasmic patterns and mixed patterns.

Thanks for all your hard work.

Tue, 07 Jan 2020

Information from the ICAP clinical relevance publication (Damoiseaux et al, Ann Rheum Dis 78: 879-89, 2019) is now incorporated to the website.

Mon, 04 Mar 2019

The 5th ICAP Workshop will be held on September 9, 2019 in Dresden, one day prior to the 14th Dresden Symposium on Autoantibodies

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Sat, 16 Feb 2019

The complete translation draft to Russian goes online.

Wed, 30 Jan 2019

NEW PUBLICATION:
"Clinical relevance of HEp-2 indirect immunofluorescent patterns: the International Consensus on ANA patterns (ICAP) perspective”

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Fri, 12 Oct 2018

ICAP COURSE in Shenzhen, China

Tue, 05 Jun 2018

NEW PUBLICATION:
"International consensus on antinuclear antibody patterns: definition of the AC-29 pattern associated with antibodies to DNA topoisomerase I”.

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Thu, 05 Apr 2018

NEW PUBLICATION:
"International Consensus on Antinuclear Antibody Patterns: defining negative results and reporting unidentified patterns"

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Thu, 15 Mar 2018

Download Files updated!
The follow "Download Files" have been updated: ICAP presentation file, ICAP Page 2, ICAP Page 3, ICAP Page 5 and ICAP Page 6.

Wed, 17 Jan 2018

The complete translation draft to Turkish goes online.

Tue, 01 Aug 2017

Dr. Carlos A. von Muhlen will hold a conference in Chile about the International Consensus on ANA Patterns

Mon, 01 May 2017

The complete translation draft to French goes online.

Wed, 15 Mar 2017

NEW IMAGES ADDED: AC-3, AC-10, AC-11, AC-13, AC-28

Mon, 13 Mar 2017

NEW IMAGES ADDED: AC-1, AC-9, AC-14, AC-15, AC-16, AC-19, AC-20, AC-21, AC-23, AC-24, AC-25.

Tue, 25 Oct 2016

Dr. Carlos A. von Muhlen held a videoconference with the Health Ministry in Santiago de Chile providing recent updates on ICAP. The session lasted the whole morning with more than 50 participants from the regional clinical laboratory community

Tue, 11 Oct 2016

3rd ICAP on 13th International Workshop on Autoantibodies and Autoimmunity (IWAA2016)

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Thu, 23 Jun 2016

New images added:
AC-1, AC-2, AC-3, AC-6, AC-7, AC-10, AC-11, AC-12, AC-13, AC-14, AC-16, AC-18, AC-19, AC-20, AC-21, AC-23, AC-24 and AC-27.

Wed, 01 Jun 2016

NEW PUBLICATION : Report on the second International Consensus on ANA Pattern (ICAP) workshop in Dresden 2015. Lupus (2016) 25, 797-804

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Wed, 25 May 2016

The complete translation draft to German goes online.

Tue, 15 Mar 2016

The complete translation draft to Italian goes online.

Tue, 01 Mar 2016

Supplemental file download problem fixed

Fri, 26 Feb 2016

NEW PUBLICATION : International Consensus on ANA Patterns (ICAP): the bumpy road towards a consensus on reporting ANA results. Autoimmunity Highlights, 7:1.

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Fri, 26 Feb 2016

NEW PUBLICATION : Report on the second International Consensus on ANA Pattern (ICAP) workshop in Dresden 2015. Lupus, in press.

Fri, 26 Feb 2016

Updating in Organizers - Translation team members

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Wed, 10 Feb 2016

The complete translation draft to Portuguese from Portugal goes online.

Tue, 02 Feb 2016

The complete translation draft to Spanish goes online.

Thu, 10 Dec 2015

The complete translation draft to Portuguese from Brazil goes online.