Hello Stacy
There are a few other conditions in which low complement is also found, but taken along with that ANA and with suitable symptoms and in the absence of any other explanation, it would certainly be indicative of lupus. Active disease or a flare unless they are always low when it might be a complement deficiency state which can lead to lupus like disease.
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/003456.
http://www.labtestsonline.org/understanding/analytes/complement_levels/test.html
By the way I have corrected the spelling :wink2: Maybe that's why you couldn't find anything.
Cheers
Clare
There are a few other conditions in which low complement is also found, but taken along with that ANA and with suitable symptoms and in the absence of any other explanation, it would certainly be indicative of lupus. Active disease or a flare unless they are always low when it might be a complement deficiency state which can lead to lupus like disease.
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/003456.
http://www.labtestsonline.org/understanding/analytes/complement_levels/test.html
By the way I have corrected the spelling :wink2: Maybe that's why you couldn't find anything.
Cheers
Clare
