Announcements

Sat, 23 Oct 21	Release new FAQ entitled "IFA changed from coarse granular to homogenous"	View Details
Sun, 10 Oct 21	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	View Details
Mon, 20 Sep 21	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 21	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	View Details
Thu, 18 Feb 21	The complete translation draft to Korean goes online.
Fri, 24 Jul 20	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 20	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 19	The 5th ICAP Workshop will be held on September 9, 2019 in Dresden, one day prior to the 14th Dresden Symposium on Autoantibodies	View Details
Sat, 16 Feb 19	The complete translation draft to Russian goes online.
Wed, 30 Jan 19	NEW PUBLICATION: "Clinical relevance of HEp-2 indirect immunofluorescent patterns: the International Consensus on ANA patterns (ICAP) perspective”	View Details
Fri, 12 Oct 18	ICAP COURSE in Shenzhen, China
Tue, 05 Jun 18	NEW PUBLICATION: "International consensus on antinuclear antibody patterns: definition of the AC-29 pattern associated with antibodies to DNA topoisomerase I”.	View Details
Thu, 05 Apr 18	NEW PUBLICATION: "International Consensus on Antinuclear Antibody Patterns: defining negative results and reporting unidentified patterns"	View Details
Thu, 15 Mar 18	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 18	The complete translation draft to Turkish goes online.
Tue, 01 Aug 17	Dr. Carlos A. von Muhlen will hold a conference in Chile about the International Consensus on ANA Patterns
Mon, 01 May 17	The complete translation draft to French goes online.
Wed, 15 Mar 17	NEW IMAGES ADDED: AC-3, AC-10, AC-11, AC-13, AC-28
Mon, 13 Mar 17	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 16	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 16	3rd ICAP on 13th International Workshop on Autoantibodies and Autoimmunity (IWAA2016)	View Details
Thu, 23 Jun 16	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 16	NEW PUBLICATION : Report on the second International Consensus on ANA Pattern (ICAP) workshop in Dresden 2015. Lupus (2016) 25, 797-804	View Details
Wed, 25 May 16	The complete translation draft to German goes online.
Tue, 15 Mar 16	The complete translation draft to Italian goes online.
Tue, 01 Mar 16	Supplemental file download problem fixed
Fri, 26 Feb 16	NEW PUBLICATION : International Consensus on ANA Patterns (ICAP): the bumpy road towards a consensus on reporting ANA results. Autoimmunity Highlights, 7:1.	View Details
Fri, 26 Feb 16	NEW PUBLICATION : Report on the second International Consensus on ANA Pattern (ICAP) workshop in Dresden 2015. Lupus, in press.
Fri, 26 Feb 16	Updating in Organizers - Translation team members	View Details
Wed, 10 Feb 16	The complete translation draft to Portuguese from Portugal goes online.
Tue, 02 Feb 16	The complete translation draft to Spanish goes online.
Thu, 10 Dec 15	The complete translation draft to Portuguese from Brazil goes online.