With passion for rheumatology! Diagnostics of the different autoimmune-related rheumatic diseases pose a particular challenge to rheumatologists: They are confronted with at least 400 inflammatory joint, connective tissue or vascular diseases, which include subgroups sometimes requiring different treatments, and cause a great variety of symptoms. In addition to symptoms, specific antibodies are characterising features. But […]

Immunoblots are an important laboratory-diagnostic tool to detect autoimmune diseases, allergies and infectious diseases. They enable monospecific detection of many different antibodies and, simultaneously, their differentiation. Especially autoimmune diseases, such as myositis, may be caused by manifold antibodies– many of them occurring with very low prevalences. This often leads to a long search and the