Announcements

UPDATE OF THE CLASSIFICATION TREE

Dear ANA Patterns webpage user,

The ANA Patterns classification tree has been updated in accordance with the latest publication:
Luis E.C. Andrade, Werner Klotz, Manfred Herold, Lucile Musset, Jan Damoiseaux, Maria Infantino, Orlando G. Carballo, May Choi, Carlos A. von Mühlen, Ignacio Garcia-De La Torre, Minoru Satoh, Paulo L.C. Francescantonio, Tsuneyo Mimori, Karsten Conrad, Wilson de Melo Cruvinel, Edward K.L. Chan, Marvin J. Fritzler. Reflecting on a decade of the international consensus on ANA patterns (ICAP): Accomplishments and challenges from the perspective of the 7th ICAP workshop. Autoimmunity Reviews, 2024.

The content for AC-30, AC-31, and AC-XX will be updated gradually.
Thank you for your patience and continued interest.
Best regards,

ICAP Team

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

 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

14th International Congress on Autoimmunity (Ljubljana -Slovenia)

https://autoimmunity.kenes.com/

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


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 

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

NEW PUBLICATION:
"Detection of antinuclear antibodies: recommendations from EFLM, EASI and ICAP". 

https://www.anapatterns.org/publications.php

The complete translation draft to Ukrainian goes online.

The complete translation draft to Japanese goes online.

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...

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

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

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

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

The complete translation draft to Korean goes online.

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:

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

The complete translation draft to Russian goes online. 

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

ICAP COURSE in Shenzhen, China

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

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

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.

The complete translation draft to Turkish goes online.

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

The complete translation draft to French goes online.

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

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.  

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

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.