TY - JOUR AU - Marotta, Roberta AU - Baccalini, Rossana AU - Porreca, Wanda Patrizia AU - Melzi d’Eril, Gianlodovico PY - 2013/04/30 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Appropriateness of the request for laboratory tests in the diagnosis of systemic autoimmune diseases JF - Microbiologia Medica JA - Microbiol Med VL - 28 IS - 1 SE - Short Communications DO - 10.4081/mm.2013.2282 UR - https://www.pagepressjournals.org/mm/article/view/mm.2013.2282 SP - AB - Autoimmune diseases are caused by an immune response against some autoantigens. This response, characterized by the presence of autoantibodies, causes an inflammatory disease, which can cause a damage of specific organ (organ-specific autoimmune diseases) or systemic (systemic autoimmune diseases). The presence of these autoantibodies in the serum can therefore be a useful parameter for the diagnosis and/or monitoring of autoimmune diseases In this paper we describe a flow chart about laboratory tests in the diagnosis of systemic autoimmune diseases so as to maintain appropriateness of the request and contain costs. ER -