Autoimmune disorders are sometimes viewed as separate conditions, joint pain in rheumatoid arthritis, skin lesions in ...

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. ANSWER: The term “lupus” generally means systemic lupus erythematosis (SLE), ...

Dear T.S.B.: The term "lupus" generally means systemic lupus erythematosis (SLE), which is a systemic disorder (as its name ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

In the Hopkins Lupus Cohort, we showed that the risk was increased by a factor of 2.66 1 over the expectation based on the Framingham risk score. Surrogate markers of coronary atherosclerosis are ...