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How much weight would you place on a low titer Ku antibody in a patient with mild CPK elevation but no weakness on exam and no other features of CTD overlap syndrome?

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Rheumatology · University of Pittsburgh
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Not much as we know autoantibodies can be false positive especially at low titre. I do not treat patients with just autoantibody without any clinical feature. If this patient has anti-Ku antibody with elevated CK, I would just monitor the patient regularly for development of new clinical symptoms/si...

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