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How would i be diagnosed with a connective tissue disease (lupus)?

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Symptoms and test: To diagnose lupus you need certain combination of symptoms and positive blood test, very typical symptoms oflupus are "butterfly rash" over the nose, join pain/swelling, oral sores, eyes symptoms, lupus can also give lung, heart, kidneys involvment, blood with anemia, low WBC counts. Blood test that can be positive in lupus is ANA (95% patient), anti-dsdna, also blood and urine testing may suggest.

Answered 6/10/2014

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