Anti-insulin antibodies and the natural autoimmune response in systemic lupus erythematosus.

abstract：:Acquired C1q deficiency secondary to anti C1q auto-antibodies may result in the hypocomplementaemic urticarial vasculitis syndrome and may also be seen in active systemic lupus erythematosus. Some patients with acquired C1 inhibitor deficiency are found to have an underlying malignancy, most commonly lymphoma. We repo...

journal_title：Lupus

authors： Gordon MM,Lucie N,Porter D

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cardiac involvement in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is well documented. The pericardium, myocardium and endocardium, as well as the coronary arteries, the valves and the conduction system can all be affected. While pericarditis is common, arrythmias are less frequently described.We present a 13-year-old male, wh...

journal_title：Lupus

authors： Fogaça da Mata M,Rebelo M,Sousa HS,Rocha A,Miguel P,Oliveira Ramos F,Costa-Reis P

更新日期：2020-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was designed to investigate whether Foxp3( +) regulatory T (Treg) cells play a role in the histopathologic changes of primary Sjögren's Syndrome (pSS) and to evaluate other factors possibly associated with Foxp3(+) Treg cells in pSS patients. The number of FoxP3-expressing T cells in peripheral blood (PB) o...

journal_title：Lupus

authors： Sarigul M,Yazisiz V,Bassorgun CI,Ulker M,Avci AB,Erbasan F,Gelen T,Gorczynski RM,Terzioglu E

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a prototype inflammatory autoimmune disease resulting from autoimmune responses against nuclear autoantigens. During apoptosis many lupus autoantigens congregate inside the cells and are susceptible to modifications. Modified nuclear constituents are considered foreign and dangero...

journal_title：Lupus

authors： Munoz LE,van Bavel C,Franz S,Berden J,Herrmann M,van der Vlag J

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Systemic lupus erythematosus is the prototypic multi-system autoimmune disease characterized by the production of multiple autoantibodies. The development of disease depends on a genetic predisposition and exposure to environmental factors including UV light, drugs, and infections. The association of parasitic infecti...

journal_title：Lupus

authors： Zandman-Goddard G,Shoenfeld Y

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a case of bilateral choroidopathy in a 35-year-old woman with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) diagnosed 3 years previously, and treated with hydroxychloroquine and steroids that ceased 6 months before ocular signs. She complained about rapid bilateral blurred vision with a severe loss of visual acuity. Fl...

journal_title：Lupus

authors： Edouard S,Douat J,Sailler L,Arlet P,Astudillo L

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite strongly held opinions, a trustworthy scientific basis for most statements about autoimmunity, autoimmune diseases and assisted reproductive technologies (ART) does not exist. It is not likely that autoimmunity causes infertility, nor that patients with autoimmune diseases are unusually infertile. When careful...

journal_title：Lupus

authors： Lockshin MD

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lupus anticoagulant-hypoprothrombinemia syndrome (LA-HPS) is a rare acquired disorder caused by prothrombin antibodies. The disease is most common in the pediatric age group (<16 years), and more prevalent in women. There are well-established clinical diseases associated with LA-HPS, most notably systemic lupus erythe...

journal_title：Lupus

authors： Mulliez SM,De Keyser F,Verbist C,Vantilborgh A,Wijns W,Beukinga I,Devreese KM

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) has preponderance in women in their childbearing years; consequently pregnancy has always been an important issue of concern for the patient and the treating physician. Based upon numerous reports on successful pregnancy outcomes in the past decades, the initial advice against pregna...

journal_title：Lupus

authors： Schreiber K

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The objective of this paper is to evaluate whether the different International Society of Nephrology/Renal Pathology Society (ISN/RPS) classes of proliferative lupus nephritis (LN) have a distinct baseline presentation, short-term response to immunosuppression (IS) and long-term prognosis. METHODS:Ninety-eig...

journal_title：Lupus

authors： Vandepapelière J,Aydin S,Cosyns JP,Depresseux G,Jadoul M,Houssiau FA

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:We aimed to develop a model of the illness experience for youth with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE)/mixed connective tissue disease (MCTD). METHODS:We conducted 32 semi-structured interviews with 16 outpatient youth with SLE/MCTD, age 11 to 22 years, and their parents. We qualitatively defined key featur...

journal_title：Lupus

authors： Knight A,Vickery M,Fiks AG,Barg FK

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cardiomyopathy in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) may be secondary to myocardial inflammation (i.e. myocarditis) or to systemic complications such as hypertension. Symptomatic left ventricular dysfunction is the most common clinical presentation of cardiomyopathy and is potentially life threatening. Ident...

journal_title：Lupus

authors： Appenzeller S,Pineau CA,Clarke AE

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Plasma mycophenolic acid (MPA) concentrations may predict therapeutic response in active lupus nephritis (LN). We determined the efficacy and safety of a concentration-controlled MPA regime in the treatment of severely active LN. METHODS:In this prospective study, 19 biopsy-proven class III/IV LN patients w...

journal_title：Lupus

authors： Kittanamongkolchai W,Rukrung C,Supasiri T,Lertjirachai I,Somparn P,Chariyavilaskul P,Avihingsanon Y

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Complement activation is central to the pathogenesis of lupus nephritis (LN). Low serum complement C3 and C4, are traditionally used as markers of lupus disease activity in general and LN in particular. In this study we prospectively measured plasma and urine C3d and C4d, degradation products of C3 and C4 ...

journal_title：Lupus

authors： Ganguly S,Majumder S,Kumar S,Gupta R,Muhammed H,Shobha V,Aggarwal A,Misra R

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Impaired function of polymorphonuclear cells (PMNs) in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) leads to severe gram-positive and gram-negative bacterial infection, and to major morbidity and mortality. Few studies have focused on the association of impaired function of PMNs and SLE patients' susceptibility to inf...

journal_title：Lupus

authors： Wu SA,Yeh KW,Lee WI,Yao TC,Kuo ML,Huang B,Huang JL

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prothrombin is a common antigenic target of antiphospholipid antibodies, since anti-prothrombin antibodies are detected in about 50-90% of the patients. To allow proper immune recognition, prothrombin must be adsorbed on suitable anionic surfaces. The epitope(s) have not yet been identified: the majority of anti-proth...

journal_title：Lupus

authors： Galli M,Barbui T

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Data related to the disease course of patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) with special attention to the persistence of disease activity in the long term are scarce. At this moment reliable figures are only known about the survival rate as a measure of outcome. The aim of this multicenter study was to desc...

journal_title：Lupus

authors： Swaak AJ,van den Brink HG,Smeenk RJ,Manger K,Kalden JR,Tosi S,Domljan Z,Rozman B,Logar D,Pokorny G,Kovacs L,Kovacs A,Vlachoyiannopoulos PG,Moutsopoulos HM,Chwalinska-Sadowska H,Kiss E,Cikes N,Anic B,Schneider M,Fisc

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies on epigenetics, including DNA methylation and its regulatory enzymes, seem likely to contribute to elucidation of the pathogenesis of autoimmune diseases such as systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), although the relationship between DNA methylation and SLE has long been the subject of investigation. To o...

journal_title：Lupus

authors： Sekigawa I,Okada M,Ogasawara H,Kaneko H,Hishikawa T,Hashimoto H

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Atherosclerosis is recognized as the pathological basis of cardiovascular disease (CVD) and recent advances in basic science have shown that it should be considered as a chronic inflammatory process. Both elements of the innate and the adaptive immunity appear to be actively involved in atherogenesis. In fact, the pot...

journal_title：Lupus

authors： Rattazzi M,Faggin E,Bertipaglia B,Pauletto P

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 24 year old female with hereditary spastic paraplegia presented with intermittent headache for one year. She also had lower abdominal pain and vomiting for two months. She was pale, had icterus and mild splenomegaly. On diagnostic evaluation she was found to have hemolytic anemia, thrombocytopenia and bilateral adre...

journal_title：Lupus

authors： Abdulla MC,Alungal J,Hashim S,Ali MM,Musambil M

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neonatal lupus erythematosus (NLE) is an uncommon condition usually associated with maternal anti-Ro autoantibodies. The cutaneous lesions of NLE are usually transient, disappearing about six months after birth, but telangiectasia is a rare complication of NLE which persists. Telangiectasias are small focal red macule...

journal_title：Lupus

authors： Guinovart RM,Vicente A,Rovira C,Suñol M,González-Enseñat MA

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Valvular replacement was performed in a patient with primary antiphospholipid syndrome and severe mitral insufficiency. The valvular tissue presented thrombotic phenomena and fibrosis with minimum inflammatory component. ...

journal_title：Lupus

authors： Alvarez-Blanco A,Egurbide-Arberas MV,Aguirre-Errasti C

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In prospective studies, increased levels of cardiolipin-biding antibodies and autoantibodies to oxidized low-density lipoprotein (LDL) have been observed in patients with myocardial infarction (MI). These findings suggest that antiphospholipid antibodies may contribute to the development of MI. The 'oxidative-modifica...

journal_title：Lupus

authors： Vaarala O

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (CTEPH) is a rare and life-threatening condition with poor prognosis in patients with antiphospholipid syndrome (APS). Pulmonary thromboendarterectomy (PTE) is the optimal surgical option for CTEPH. OBJECTIVES:This retrospective cohort study aimed to evaluate th...

journal_title：Lupus

authors： Li C,Zhao J,Liu S,Song W,Zhu J,Hua L,Wang Q,Li M,Zeng X,Zhao Y

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One hundred and twenty-nine patients with systemic lupus erythematosus were screened for thyroid function tests. Of these, 8.9% had hyperthyroidism and 3.9% Hashimoto's thyroiditis. Euthyroid sick syndrome was present in 47.8% of patients. There was a high prevalence of antimicrosomal and antithyroglobulin antibodies ...

journal_title：Lupus

authors： Boey ML,Fong PH,Lee JS,Ng WY,Thai AC

更新日期：1993-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Background and objective African-Americans and Hispanic-Americans with lupus are the two most common minority groups who receive kidney transplants in the USA. It is unknown if African-Americans and Hispanic-Americans with lupus have similar outcomes after kidney transplantation. In this study, we assessed whether Afr...

journal_title：Lupus

authors： Gonzalez-Suarez ML,Contreras G

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pulmonary hypertension (PH) can occur at any time during the course of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), and can be independent of lupus disease activity in other systems. The pathogenesis of PH in SLE can be multifactorial, but pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) is the commonest cause of PH in SLE. The internati...

journal_title：Lupus

authors： Prabu A,Gordon C

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the importance of the anticardiolipin test in diagnosis of antiphospholipid syndrome (APS) is widely accepted, there remains much misunderstanding about the strengths and weaknesses of this assay. Several disorders result in formation of low levels of the antibody, hence the anticardiolipin test is not specif...

journal_title：Lupus

authors： Harris EN,Pierangeli SS

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Monoclonal antiphospholipid antibodies (aPL) have been utilized to dissect the relationship between their sequence, structure, binding and biological properties relevant to the pathogenesis of the antiphospholipid syndrome. In particular, sequence analysis of aPL has highlighted the clustering of certain amino acid re...

journal_title：Lupus

authors： Lambrianides A,Giles IP

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the occurrence of visceral leishmaniasis in three patients coming from the northern part of Italy treated with immunosuppressive drugs for different rheumatic conditions. This paper highlights the importance of adequate work-up in those patients presenting with serious clinical manifestations that can compli...

journal_title：Lupus

authors： Castellino G,Govoni M,Lo Monaco A,Montecucco C,Colombo F,Trotta F

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00