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Re: Please tell me more about the blood test.


Posted by Sebastiaan on March 22, 2000 at 07:12:32:

In Reply to: Re: Please tell me more about the blood test. posted by Merrill on March 20, 2000 at 14:17:08:

once more I chip in (see also below
on my post on HLA-dr2), because it's
one of the aspects of narcolepsy I'm
particularly interested in;

-if the diagnosis is clear-cut (on the story,
in combination with MSLT results): HLA testing
is NOT necessary (ie it will not give any additional info, whether it is positive or not)
-if there is doubt about the diagnosis of
narcolepsy, testing can be useful. If the test
is negative for DR2, narcolepsy can virtually
be ruled out (in the western population). However,
if the test is negative, nothing can be said.

So Merill:
>
>So, if you have the marker you probably are narcoleptic, and if you don't you probably are not.>
>
the first half of your sentence is not true, but
the second is.

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