FAN

English translation: ANF (anti-nuclear factor)

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Portuguese term or phrase:FAN
English translation:ANF (anti-nuclear factor)
Entered by: rhandler

23:47 Mar 21, 2008
Portuguese to English translations [PRO]
Medical - Medical (general) / serology
Portuguese term or phrase: FAN
This is an abbreviation. It has to do with screening tests that were done to rule out alternative causes of a case of neutropenia. Original sentence: "Foi feita propedêutica que descartou outras causas de neutropina (serologia para sífilis, hepatite B e C, HIV, PCR, VHS, FAN)."
Martin Hoffman
Local time: 14:47
ANF (anti-nuclear factor)
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(VHS), fator antinúcleo (FAN) e proteína C-reativa. As provas de fase aguda normalmente são ... deverão ser excluídas são a neutropenia cíclica, a febre ...
www.einstein.br/revista/biblioteca/artigos/vol3/num_4/Vol3_...


E agora em inglês:

Cold reacting anti-nuclear factor (ANF) in families of patients ...
The emergence of cold reacting anti-nuclear factor (ANF) in families of patients with IgA nephropathy was examined to determine whether some immunological ...
www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1576948


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Additional examples in English:

erythematosus Gluten sensitivity masquerading as systemic lupus
the immunological picture (raised dsDNA but normal ANF,. neutropenia, high ESR) in combination with the gastro-. intestinal symptoms and persistent headache ...
http://ard.bmj.com/cgi/reprint/63/11/1501.pdf

Complement-fixing granulocyte-specific antinuclear factors in ...
Complement-fixing GS-ANF were found in thirty-five of these sera compared with only four out of twenty-eight sera from RA patients without neutropenia. ...
www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1423356
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ANF (anti-nuclear factor)


Explanation:
Veja:

[PDF] Educação Continuada em Saúde
File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - View as HTML
(VHS), fator antinúcleo (FAN) e proteína C-reativa. As provas de fase aguda normalmente são ... deverão ser excluídas são a neutropenia cíclica, a febre ...
www.einstein.br/revista/biblioteca/artigos/vol3/num_4/Vol3_...


E agora em inglês:

Cold reacting anti-nuclear factor (ANF) in families of patients ...
The emergence of cold reacting anti-nuclear factor (ANF) in families of patients with IgA nephropathy was examined to determine whether some immunological ...
www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1576948


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Note added at 10 mins (2008-03-21 23:58:45 GMT)
--------------------------------------------------

Additional examples in English:

erythematosus Gluten sensitivity masquerading as systemic lupus
the immunological picture (raised dsDNA but normal ANF,. neutropenia, high ESR) in combination with the gastro-. intestinal symptoms and persistent headache ...
http://ard.bmj.com/cgi/reprint/63/11/1501.pdf

Complement-fixing granulocyte-specific antinuclear factors in ...
Complement-fixing GS-ANF were found in thirty-five of these sera compared with only four out of twenty-eight sera from RA patients without neutropenia. ...
www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1423356


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