Progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy - the importance of early diagnosis illustrated in four cases.

abstract：:Although many types of neurological disorders and events have been described in association with antiphospholipid antibodies (aPL) and the antiphospholipid syndrome (APS), only ischaemic stroke is reasonably well established and accepted as a diagnostic criterion for the syndrome. We propose to evaluate, classify and ...

journal_title：Lupus

authors： Chapman J,Rand JH,Brey RL,Levine SR,Blatt I,Khamashta MA,Shoenfeld Y

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tissue damage associated with a severe injury can result in profound inflammatory responses that may trigger autoimmune development in lupus-prone individuals. In this study, we investigated the role of a large full-thickness cutaneous burn injury on the early onset of autoimmune disease in lupus-prone MRL/++ mice. MR...

journal_title：Lupus

authors： Anam K,Amare M,Naik S,Szabo KA,Davis TA

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Azathioprine-induced aplastic anemia and fatal myelosuppression is a rare occurrence in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). We report a case of a 53-year-old female with a normal thiopurine S-methyltransferase (TPMT) level who developed aplastic anemia within 4 weeks of azathioprine initiation, resulting...

journal_title：Lupus

authors： Yeter KC,Afkhami M,Brynes RK,Quismorio FP Jr

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immune-mediated sensorineural hearing loss may complicate systemic autoimmune diseases. We have previously reported the presence of antibodies directed against inner ear antigens in patients with Cogan syndrome, a disease characterized by sudden hearing loss and interstitial keratitis. Such autoantibodies cross-react ...

journal_title：Lupus

authors： Bason C,Pagnini I,Brucato A,Maestroni S,Puccetti A,Lunardi C,Cimaz R

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a severe chronic inflammatory autoimmune connective tissue disease. Despite major efforts, SLE remains a poorly understood disease with unpredictable course, unknown etiology and complex pathogenesis. Apoptosis combined with deficiency in clearing apoptotic cells is an important e...

journal_title：Lupus

authors： Delfani P,Sturfelt G,Gullstrand B,Carlsson A,Kassandra M,Borrebaeck CA,Bengtsson AA,Wingren C

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The complexity of the therapeutic approach in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is increased by the large number of patients who do not respond to the first-line therapies and by relapses after initial clinical remission. In these patients, second-line drugs are often prescribed according to individual clinical decis...

journal_title：Lupus

authors： Ramos-Casals M,Soto MJ,Cuadrado MJ,Khamashta MA

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Proteinuria is the hallmark of clinical manifestation of disease activity in lupus nephritis (LN) patients, which arises from direct or indirect podocyte injury. This study is to explore the relationship between intrarenal T cell infiltration and podocyte injury in lupus nephritis (LN), and to understand the potential...

journal_title：Lupus

authors： Ma R,Jiang W,Li Z,Sun Y,Wei Z

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Fatigue in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is burdensome and must be assessed using validated scales. Although the psychometric properties of the Functional Assessment of Chronic Illness Therapy-Fatigue (FACIT-Fatigue) scale in SLE have been evaluated previously, its content validity in this disease remain...

journal_title：Lupus

authors： Kosinski M,Gajria K,Fernandes AW,Cella D

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Objectives We analyzed the clinical follow-up results of 88 lupus nephritis patients to find prognostic factors for the development of chronic kidney disease in ethnically homogeneous Korean patients with biopsy-proven lupus nephritis. Methods Sociodemographic, clinical, laboratory, and treatment-related data at the t...

journal_title：Lupus

authors： Park DJ,Kang JH,Lee JW,Lee KE,Kim TJ,Park YW,Lee JS,Choi YD,Lee SS

更新日期：2017-10-01 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：OBJECTIVE:Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a chronic, relapsing-remitting autoimmune disorder that involves multiple organ systems including the central nervous system. Among the items included in the nomenclature for neuropsychiatric SLE, mood disorders have been identified. The aim of this paper is to review the...

journal_title：Lupus

authors： Palagini L,Mosca M,Tani C,Gemignani A,Mauri M,Bombardieri S

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:HIN200 is a human IFN-inducible gene and homologous to murine IFI202 gene, which was identified as a candidate gene for SLE susceptibility in lupus mouse model. We determined these gene expressions in leukocytes from 20 SLE patients and 10 healthy controls and in renal biopsies from 29 SLE patients and 15 kidney donor...

journal_title：Lupus

authors： Kimkong I,Avihingsanon Y,Hirankarn N

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2), the virus causing Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), has had a huge impact on health services with a high mortality associated with complications including pneumonia and acute respiratory distress syndrome. Historical evidence suggests that Lupus patients h...

journal_title：Lupus

authors： Mason A,Rose E,Edwards CJ

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lymphocytic vasculitis (LV) characterises systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and this potentially reversible lesion, which may be subclinical, may imply overt systemic disease activity. Needle quadriceps muscle biopsy was performed in 26 unselected patients with SLE and the presence of LV in these muscle specimens was...

journal_title：Lupus

authors： Lim KL,Lowe J,Powell RJ

更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:With a cross sectional study of 465 consecutive systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) patients tested for 13 autoantibodies (Aab) and two idiotypes we determined the prevalence of Aab according to disease activity, both general and at particular organ systems. Seventy seven percent of SLE sera had at least one Aab and 56...

journal_title：Lupus

authors： Villarreal GM,Drenkard C,Villa AR,Slor H,Shafrir S,Bakimer R,Shoenfeld Y,Alarcón-Segovia D

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Polyarthritis is common to both mixed connective tissue disease (MCTD) and systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). Apart from being erosive and deforming in the former, we speculated that it was more common and the extent of joints involved would be higher in MCTD. METHODS:This was a cross-sectional study that ...

journal_title：Lupus

authors： Gunashekar S,Prakash M,Minz RW,Sharma A,Sharma S,Dhir V

更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic intestinal pseudo-obstruction (CIPO) is a rare clinical syndrome of ineffective intestinal motility characterised by clinical and radiological evidence of intestinal obstruction with no identifiable mechanical lesion. CIPO can either be idiopathic or secondary to a systemic disease, like systemic lupus erythem...

journal_title：Lupus

authors： Khairullah S,Jasmin R,Yahya F,Cheah TE,Ng CT,Sockalingam S

更新日期：2013-08-01 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：:Allergic disorders commonly occur in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and allergies to some drugs may occasionally be related to disease flares. We evaluated the prevalence of several types of allergy in 132 patients with SLE and their families and compared the SLE patients with a control group of 66 p...

journal_title：Lupus

authors： Sequeira JF,Cesic D,Keser G,Bukelica M,Karanagnostis S,Khamashta MA,Hughes GR

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The aim of this study was to evaluate the correlation and agreement of spot urine protein/creatinine (P/C) ratio with 24 h proteinuria in patients with lupus nephritis (LN) under different scores of activity index (AI). METHODS:In total, 90 pairs of 24 h urine and spot urine samples from 90 patients with bi...

journal_title：Lupus

authors： Zhang Q,Sun L,Jin L

更新日期：2015-08-01 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：:A 28-year-old woman with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) suffered recent onset fever, headache, encephalopathy followed by severe, repeated generalized seizures. Investigations revealed limbic encephalitis. Tests for Herpes simplex encephalitis and paraneoplastic encephalomyelitis were negative. High titers anti-ri...

journal_title：Lupus

authors： Stübgen JP

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurological involvement in antiphospholipid antibody syndrome (APS) is common, and its occurrence increases morbidity and mortality. Patients may present variable neurological involvement, such as cerebrovascular disease, cognitive dysfunction, headache, seizures, movement disorders, multiple sclerosis-like syndrome,...

journal_title：Lupus

authors： Ricarte IF,Dutra LA,Abrantes FF,Toso FF,Barsottini OGP,Silva GS,de Souza AWS,Andrade D

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Endothelial and/or platelet activation likely initiates thrombus formation. Whether antiphospholipid antibody (aPL) is an activator, a toxic response, or a protective response is not clear, nor is it certain whether aPL is germ-line encoded or antigen-driven. The pregnancy model is particularly informative. Alternativ...

journal_title：Lupus

authors： Lockshin MD

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prognosis of pregnancies in women with antiphospholipid syndrome has dramatically improved over the past two decades using conventional treatment with low molecular weight heparin and low-dose aspirin. However, despite this regimen, 10-15% of antiphospholipid syndrome patients experience pregnancy losses. Several stud...

journal_title：Lupus

authors： Tabacco S,Giannini A,Garufi C,Botta A,Salvi S,Del Sordo G,Benedetti Panici P,Lanzone A,De Carolis S

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Choroidal involvement in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) occurs infrequently. We report a 45-y-old woman with bilateral chorioretinopathy associated with SLE. Diagnosis was performed using indirect ophthalmoscopy, retinal fluorescein angiography (FA) and green indocianin angiography (ICG). In this patient chorioret...

journal_title：Lupus

authors： Paroli MP,Riso D,Pinca M,Pivetti-Pezzi P

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to evaluate traditional risk factors for coronary artery disease (CAD), homocysteine, anti-oxidized low-density lipoprotein (anti-oxLDL), anti-lipoprotein lipase (anti-LPL) and endothelin-1 (ET-1) in patients with primary anti-phospholipid syndrome (APS), furthermore verify possible associati...

journal_title：Lupus

authors： de Souza AW,Silva NP,de Carvalho JF,D'Almeida V,Noguti MA,Sato EI

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Peripheral T cell apoptosis is upregulated in active SLE, in parallel with high expression of both membrane-bound and soluble (s) Fas. Previous studies postulated that sFas down-regulates apoptosis in vitro through its blockade of the Fas-L of cytotoxic cells. We have investigated the extent of apoptosis and sFas leve...

journal_title：Lupus

authors： Silvestris F,Grinello D,Tucci M,Cafforio P,Dammacco F

更新日期：2003-01-01 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：:Involvement of the musculoskeletal system is common if not universal in the clinical course of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). Joint involvement on the whole does not cause major erosive disease, however, recent developments in musculoskeletal imaging show clearly the presence of significant bony and soft tissue i...

journal_title：Lupus

authors： Zoma A

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00