Estrogen receptor alpha gene polymorphism and systemic lupus erythematosus: a possible risk?

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although the survival rate has considerably improved, many patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) develop irreversible organ damage. OBJECTIVES:The objectives of this paper are to characterize cumulative damage in SLE patients and identify variables associated with its presence and severity. METH...

journal_title：Lupus

authors： Gonçalves MJ,Sousa S,Inês LS,Duarte C,Borges J,Silva C,Romão VC,Terroso G,Bernardes M,Cerqueira M,Raposo A,Sequeira G,Barcelos A,Macieira C,Canas da Silva J,Costa L,Pereira da Silva JA,Cunha-Miranda L,Da Silva JA,Ca

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is an autoimmune disease with chronic systemic inflammation. Oxidative stress may play a role in the pathogenesis of SLE. An increase in free radicals or an impaired antioxidant defense system in SLE causes oxidative stress. Therefore, oxidative damage plays an important role in the ...

journal_title：Lupus

authors： Zaieni SH,Derakhshan Z,Sariri R

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The antiphospholipid syndrome (APS) is characterized by thrombosis and/or pregnancy morbidity in the presence of antiphospholipid antibodies (aPL). Among the thrombogenic mechanisms proposed, it has been suggested that aPL can stimulate tissue factor (TF) expression by endothelial cells (ECs) and monocytes. Moreover, ...

journal_title：Lupus

authors： López-Pedrera Ch,Buendía P,Aguirre MA,Velasco F,Cuadrado MJ

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lupus nephritis is an important cause of morbidity and mortality in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus. Traditional outcome criteria such as doubling of serum creatinine, end-stage renal disease and death have been used in controlled therapeutic trials, but are limited by their low incidence and the extended p...

journal_title：Lupus

authors： Boumpas DT,Balow JE

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report an infant with anticardiolipin (aCL) antibodies who presented with erythematous nodular skin lesions and elevated liver enzyme levels. The cutaneous manifestation was histologically lymphocytic lobular panniculitis with vasculitic and hemorrhagic changes. The infant also had low levels of anti-double strande...

journal_title：Lupus

authors： Miyagawa S,Uchida Y,Taira K,Higuchi M,Hashimoto K,Yoshioka A,Shirai T

更新日期：2000-01-01 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：:A 7-year-old boy presented with adrenal insufficiency. He subsequently developed venous thrombosis in the limbs and was diagnosed with primary antiphospholipid syndrome (PAPS) based on clinical and laboratory parameters. Both adrenals were normal on imaging. He required thrombolysis and anticoagulation. The progressiv...

journal_title：Lupus

authors： Bhakhri BK,Katewa S,Sharma R,Mahajan S

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied IgG and IgM anticardiolipin antibodies (aCL) by an ELISA method in 80 Mexican systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) patients and 378 of their first degree relatives. Sixty five percent of SLE patients and 16% of their relatives were positive for aCL. We also determined allele and haplotype frequencies of Major...

journal_title：Lupus

authors： Granados J,Vargas-Alarcón G,Drenkard C,Andrade F,Melín-Aldana H,Alcocer-Varela J,Alarcón-Segovia D

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this study was to examine factors predictive of a decline to low levels of disease activity in a cohort of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) patients. Patients with SLE of Hispanic (from Texas or Puerto Rico), African-American or Caucasian ethnicity from a multiethnic cohort were included. A decline ...

journal_title：Lupus

authors： Bertoli AM,Alarcón GS,McGwin G Jr,Fernández M,Bastian HM,Fessler BJ,Vilá LM,Reveille JD,LUMINA Study Group.

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Objective People affected by chronic rheumatic conditions, such as systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), frequently rely on the Internet and search engines to look for terms related to their disease and its possible causes, symptoms and treatments. 'Infodemiology' and 'infoveillance' are two recent terms created to desc...

journal_title：Lupus

authors： Radin M,Sciascia S

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Sexual dysfunction in systemic lupus erythematous (SLE) patients is an important issue to be tackled. We aimed to study the prevalence of sexual dysfunction in SLE women and detect its association with depression, functional disability and quality of life. METHODS:This study included 94 SLE females. Ninety-...

journal_title：Lupus

authors： Dorgham D,Haggag HM,Attia DH

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Structural and metabolic abnormalities in the hippocampus have been associated with the pathophysiological mechanism of central nervous system involvement in primary Sjögren syndrome (pSS). Nevertheless, how hippocampal function is altered in pSS remains unknown. The purpose of our study is to investigate the alterati...

journal_title：Lupus

authors： Zhang XD,Zhao LR,Zhou JM,Su YY,Ke J,Cheng Y,Li JL,Shen W

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The current study was to investigate the features of hospitalized patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) at different altitudes. The correlation between SLE activity and altitudinal variations was also explored. Medical records of 1029 patients were retrospectively reviewed. Activity of SLE in each organ sys...

journal_title：Lupus

authors： Qian G,Ran X,Zhou CX,Deng DQ,Zhang PL,Guo Y,Luo JH,Zhou XH,Xie H,Cai M

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycophenolate mofetil (MMF) is effective in the treatment of patients with active systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). We sought to evaluate its efficacy in reducing the number of disease flares in adults with SLE. For this retrospective study, all patients seen at our institution over a six year period, 1999-2005, wit...

journal_title：Lupus

authors： Nannini C,Crowson CS,Matteson EL,Moder KG

更新日期：2009-04-01 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：:The objective of this study was to determine the HLA class II associations of the anticardiolipin (aCL) and anti-beta2GPI (abeta2GPI) antibodies in a large series of European patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). A cohort of 577 European SLE patients was enrolled. aCL and abeta2GPI were measured by ELISA m...

journal_title：Lupus

authors： Galeazzi M,Sebastiani GD,Tincani A,Piette JC,Allegri F,Morozzi G,Bellisai F,Scorza R,Ferrara GB,Carcassi C,Font J,Passiu G,Smolen J,Papasteriades C,Houssiau F,Nebro AF,Ramon Garrido ED,Jedryka-Goral A,Marcolongo R

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Complement activation plays a role in pathogenesis of the antiphospholipid syndrome (APS), but the involvement of the C5b-9 membrane attack complex (MAC) is unknown. Here we studied the effects of human polyclonal antiphospholipid (aPL) antibodies on thrombosis and tissue factor (TF) up-regulation in C6 defi...

journal_title：Lupus

authors： Carrera-Marín A,Romay-Penabad Z,Papalardo E,Reyes-Maldonado E,García-Latorre E,Vargas G,Shilagard T,Pierangeli S

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Environmental factors appear to play a role in the pathogenesis of lupus erythematosus (LE). OBJECTIVE:To determine the association between cigarette smoking and various types of cutaneous LE. DESIGN:Retrospective descriptive study at a dermatology clinic of a tertiary referral hospital. METHODS:All patie...

journal_title：Lupus

authors： Böckle BC,Sepp NT

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Background Antimalarials (AMs) are widely used in the treatment of connective tissue diseases. Their main side effect is retinal damage, while heart disease has been described in isolated cases. The aim of this study is to systematically review the existing literature on AM-induced cardiomyopathy (AMIC). Methods The P...

journal_title：Lupus

authors： Tselios K,Deeb M,Gladman DD,Harvey P,Urowitz MB

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this article was to evaluate whether serum uric acid (SUA) correlates with arterial stiffness and inflammation markers in a cohort of women with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) without overt atherosclerotic cardiovascular diseases, who attended a community hospital. One hundred and two women with S...

journal_title：Lupus

authors： Sabio JM,Vargas-Hitos JA,Mediavilla JD,Navarrete-Navarrete N,Zamora-Posadas M,Pérez-Vicente S,Hidalgo-Tenorio C,Díaz-Chamorro A,Jáimez L,Jiménez-Alonso J,Grupo Lupus Virgen de las Nieves.

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Results for lupus anticoagulant (LA) are expressed as ratio of patient-to-normal clotting times (LA-ratio) according to the equation LA-ratio = (Patient(Clotting time)/Normal(Clotting time)). However, numerical results vary according to the method used for testing, thus making difficult the between-method and between-...

journal_title：Lupus

authors： Tripodi A,Chantarangkul V,Pengo V

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:For patients with chronic illnesses the global burden of illness is a crucial health measure hitherto neglected in research studies and clinical practice. We tested the application and validity of PRISM (Pictorial Representation of Illness and Self-Measure), a novel visual method for assessing the burden of i...

journal_title：Lupus

authors： Büchi S,Villiger P,Kauer Y,Klaghofer R,Sensky T,Stoll T

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The immunopathogenesis of systemic lupus erythematosus has been thoroughly investigated recently, and genome-wide association studies have identified genes statistically associated with lupus. However, the progression to overt disease is dependent on the activation of environmental factors ('triggers'), among which oe...

journal_title：Lupus

authors： Catania G,Rossi E,Marmont A

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytotoxic therapy is a cornerstone for patients with severe systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). High-dose cyclophosphamide, 200 mg/kg, can induce a complete remission without the need for stem cell rescue in patients with autoimmune illnesses. Here we report on our first four patients treated for severe SLE with this ...

journal_title：Lupus

authors： Gladstone DE,Prestrud AA,Pradhan A,Styler MJ,Topolsky DL,Crilley PA,Hoch S,Huppert A,Brodsky I

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fatigue is one of the most complex and ill understood symptoms of chronic illness often reported as the number one complaint by patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). This paper aims to provide a comprehensive review of the literature on fatigue in SLE. A pool of 55 relevant articles was retrieved via elect...

journal_title：Lupus

authors： Cleanthous S,Tyagi M,Isenberg DA,Newman SP

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sera from healthy individuals, relatives of lupus patients, and lupus patients with active disease and in remission were screened for IgG and IgM antibodies to ssDNA and dsDNA. The serum samples were also separated into IgG and IgM fractions which were screened for DNA reactivity at dilutions equivalent to those used ...

journal_title：Lupus

authors： Williams WM,Isenberg DA

更新日期：1996-12-01 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：: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：:This report considers the rare situation in which primary antiphospholipid syndrome (PAPS) is linked with thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (TTP). It describes the case of a young lady with PAPS, characterized by recurring cerebro-vascular abnormalities and marked livedo reticularis, combined with circulating antica...

journal_title：Lupus

authors： de Carvalho JF,Freitas CA,Lima IV,Leite CC,Lage LV

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to investigate two patients with antiphospholipid syndrome (APS) who suffered from multiple repeated pregnancy losses of probably genetically impaired embryos. Sera from these patients contained high levels of IgG antibodies against cardiolipin, IgG and IgM phosphatidyl inositol, IgG phosphat...

journal_title：Lupus

authors： Ulcova-Gallova Z

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00