What is lupus, and what does it do to your body? I just had a friend diagnosed with it after many months of tests. -- T.S.B.

In Washington, DC and state capitals around the country, Lupus Foundation of America advocates tell their stories and urge ...

Among the many things columnist Candace Semien had to learn while living with lupus were the types and function of various ...

A team studied the differences between monogenic and nonmonogenic lupus nephritis and the predictors of end-stage kidney disease. Monogenic lupus nephritis is distinct from non-monogenic disease with ...

Guidelines recommend minimizing glucocorticoid exposure in patients with lupus (SLE), and research suggests this advice should also apply to those with lupus nephritis.

A 35-year-old man presents with a chief complaint of purple discoloration of his toes and associated skin lesions that have ...

Dysregulation of the alternative complement pathway, hallmarked by isolated reduction of the serum C3 fraction, is now recognized as an additional feature of lupus nephritis. Persistent, isolated low ...

1 in every 250 Black women will develop lupus (Lupus.org); Black women are three times more likely to get lupus than white women (CDC); The mortality rate for Black women with lupus is 3 times higher ...

But if you have lupus, your immune system doesn’t clear out the dead cells — and it attacks healthy cells instead. These attacks can lead to photosensitive lupus rashes and increase inflammation ...

Background and Aims Juvenile systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and Kawasaki disease can have several overlapping clinical and laboratory manifestations. But the co-occurrence of both disorders is ...

In the case of SLE, an expert panel was convened during 2012–2013 in order to develop treat-to-target guidance for this disease as well. [36, 37] Based on a large supervised literature search a ...

Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a heterogenic connective tissue disease with a broad spectrum of clinical and laboratory manifestations. Due to this heterogeneity, SLE remains challenging to ...