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Positive ana borderline low c4 and lupus symptoms over 9 months. is this enough to make a diagnosis?

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Dr. Leila Hashemi answered

Specializes in Internal Medicine

Depends: Hi, SLE has 11 criteria and for diagnosis you need 4 out of 11, read below the criteria: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMH0041704/ note than C3 and C4 are not part of diagnostic criteria, they just been followed to monitor response to the treatment.

Answered 1/3/2016

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