Cutaneous vasculitis (CV) is a term used for inflammation of the blood vessels in the skin that occurs in up to 70% of patients with lupus erythematosus (LE). The inflammation affects the smaller ...

Neonatal lupus skin lesions often appear in the first few weeks of life, but may be present at birth. Cutaneous lesions are often erythematous lesions, raised or flat, sometimes with fine scale.

Patients with severe lupus nephritis who have both diffuse proliferative (class IV) and membranous (class V) lesions on biopsy can be refractory to current monotherapy treatments. Bao et al.

However, drug-resistant TB requires treatment with different medications. Some lesions, such as lupus vulgaris or scrofuloderma, may require surgical removal. Lupus vulgaris often gets worse ...

for example discoid lupus erythematosus (DLE). Caproni and colleagues, therefore, studied the expression of CD40 and CD40L in skin lesions of patients with SCLE. The authors conclude that the CD40 ...