Bilateral choroidopathy in systemic lupus erythematosus.

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate the clinical characteristics, imaging changes and early diagnostic methods of neuropsychiatric systemic lupus erythematosus (NPSLE). METHODS:Thirty-five SLE patients, of which 16 had overt neuropsychiatric symptoms, underwent examination for multiple autoantibodies, including anti-double-stran...

journal_title：Lupus

authors： Jia J,Xie J,Li H,Wei H,Li X,Hu J,Meng D,Zhang Y,Zhang X

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Current non-invasive methods of assessing disease activity in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) are of limited sensitivity and specificity. Testing includes acute phase markers, autoantibodies and complement levels. Although measurements of dsDNA antibodies and complement C3/C4 levels are routine, they rema...

journal_title：Lupus

authors： Adhya Z,El Anbari M,Anwar S,Mortimer A,Marr N,Karim MY

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Objective We aimed to evaluate the relationship between telomere length and systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). Methods PUBMED and EMBASE databases were searched; meta-analyses were performed comparing telomere length in SLE patients and healthy controls, and on SLE patients in subgroups based on ethnicity, sample typ...

journal_title：Lupus

authors： Lee YH,Jung JH,Seo YH,Kim JH,Choi SJ,Ji JD,Song GG

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Objective The objective of this report is to evaluate the prevalence and clinico-serological correlations of anti-α-enolase antibody (Ab) in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). Methods Thirty-two untreated patients with SLE and 20 age- and sex-matched healthy controls were evaluated by rheumatologic exam...

journal_title：Lupus

authors： Li M,Li J,Wang J,Li Y,Yang P

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a chronic autoimmune disorder with multiple organ involvement. B-lymphocyte activity plays a pivotal role in the development and course of the disease. A newly developed agent called belimumab has recently been approved to treat active, autoantibody positive SLE as an add-on to st...

journal_title：Lupus

authors： Parodis I,Axelsson M,Gunnarsson I

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：:Analyses of the medical and economic burden of chronic disorders such as systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) are valuable for clinical and health policy decisions. We performed a chart-based review of 215 adult SLE patients with active autoantibody-positive disease at the predefined ratio of 30% severe (involvement of ...

journal_title：Lupus

authors： Bertsias G,Karampli E,Sidiropoulos P,Gergianaki I,Drosos A,Sakkas L,Garyfallos A,Tzioufas A,Vassilopoulos D,Tsalapaki C,Sfikakis P,Panopoulos S,Athanasakis K,Perna A,Psomali D,Kyriopoulos J,Boumpas D

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a complex autoimmune disease that can involve multiple organ systems. Exposure to ultraviolet radiation (UVR) can exacerbate pre-existing SLE, and can even induce systemic manifestations. This study aimed to investigate the photoprotective habits of children with SLE and...

journal_title：Lupus

authors： Janthongsri T,Wisuthsarewong W,Nitiyarom R

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Numerous drugs have been linked to the induction or exacerbation of systemic cutaneous lupus erythematosus (SCLE). This report presents the third case of the biologic abatacept as an exacerbating medication for SCLE. A 73-year old woman with a remote history of subacute cutaneous lupus and rheumatoid arthritis, well c...

journal_title：Lupus

authors： Figueredo Zamora E,Callen JP,Schadt CR

更新日期：2020-12-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Background While thrombopoeitin (TPO) agonists that act to simulate platelet production have been approved for use in steroid-refractory chronic immune thrombocytopenia purpura (ITP), there are few data on the safety and efficacy of these medications in patients with concurrent systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) or an...

journal_title：Lupus

authors： Lusa A,Carlson A

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To determine the rates of induced abortions in women with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) compared to women from the general population and assess disease-related predictors of induced abortion in women with SLE. METHODS:We identified women with SLE (15-45 years) and determined the number of induced abor...

journal_title：Lupus

authors： Venne K,Scott S,Bernatsky S,Vinet E

更新日期：2020-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate the relationship between antimalarials (AM) and elevated muscle enzymes in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). PATIENTSMETHODS:325 lupus patients with abnormal creatine phosphokinase (CPK) for at least two consecutive clinic visits were enrolled; 54 patients on statins/fibrates (n = 43) and/or...

journal_title：Lupus

authors： Tselios K,Gladman DD,Su J,Urowitz MB

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of study was to determine the nature, outcomes and associated risk factors of invasive fungal infection (IFI) in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), and compare the incidence of IFI in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). A total of 1155 patients with SLE and 2004 patients with RA were re...

journal_title：Lupus

authors： Kim HJ,Park YJ,Kim WU,Park SH,Cho CS

更新日期：2009-06-01 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：:Patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) frequently have gastrointestinal (GI) symptoms. These are usually self-limiting and related to treatment side-effects or concurrent illness. However, abdominal pain may be due to bowel ischaemia which can lead to infarction and perforation. The likelihood of these serio...

journal_title：Lupus

authors： Lian TY,Edwards CJ,Chan SP,Chng HH

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Utilizing this unique animal model of thrombosis we demonstrated that human (IgG, IgM or IgA) polyclonal and monoclonal antiphospholipid antibodies derived from APS patients have a significant enhancing effect on thrombus formation. This effect is reversed by treatment of the mice with hydroxychloroquine (plaquenil). ...

journal_title：Lupus

authors： Pierangeli SS,Harris EN

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The levels of 'putative' anti-idiotypic antibodies reactive with F(ab')2 fragments of affinity purified DNA binding antibodies from five SLE patients were measured in the serum of active and inactive systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) patients, their relatives, spouses and healthy non-related individuals. Serum anti-i...

journal_title：Lupus

authors： Williams WM,Isenberg DA

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Systemic lupus erythematosus may present with renal manifestations that frequently are difficult to categorize and lupus nephritis is an important predictor of poor outcome. The type and spectrum of renal injury may remain undiagnosed until full-blown nephritic and/or nephrotic syndrome appear with increased risk of e...

journal_title：Lupus

authors： Ortega LM,Schultz DR,Lenz O,Pardo V,Contreras GN

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Coming from Hans Wigzell's laboratory in Uppsala, Sweden, I joined the Kunkel laboratory in 1981 to spend a post-doctoral fellowship period financed by the German Research Organization. While I initially worked with Nick Chiorazzi in an attempt to generate monoclonal antibody-secreting human B-cell hybridomas, I later...

journal_title：Lupus

authors： Kabelitz D

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One hundred and fifty-eight patients with SLE were prospectively studied at a tertiary referral centre in India to ascertain the prevalence and clinical profile of fibromyalgia (FM) in Indian patients with lupus. An attempt was made to determine whether socio-demographic factors or disease characteristics differ in SL...

journal_title：Lupus

authors： Handa R,Aggarwal P,Wali JP,Wig N,Dwivedi SN

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There has been limited success defining environmental factors important to the development of connective tissue diseases such as systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). Recent work has suggested that the perinatal environment may be important. To investigate this we measured antinuclear antibodies (ANA) in a general popul...

journal_title：Lupus

authors： Edwards CJ,Syddall H,Goswami R,Goswami P,Dennison EM,Cooper C

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Objective The objectives of this paper are to objectively measure habitual physical activity levels in patients with primary Sjögren's syndrome (pSS) with mild disease activity and to determine to which extent it may be associated with physical capacity and function and clinical features. Methods In this cross-section...

journal_title：Lupus

authors： Dassouki T,Benatti FB,Pinto AJ,Roschel H,Lima FR,Augusto K,Pasoto S,Pereira RMR,Gualano B,de Sá Pinto AL

更新日期：2017-06-01 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：:The objective of this study was to determine whether anticardiolipin antibodies (ACL) in SLE patients are associated with a specific pattern of lupus nephritis and/or with renal microvascular changes. Patients with SLE, followed prospectively between June 1991-May 1994 at The Wellesley Hospital Lupus Clinic, who under...

journal_title：Lupus

authors： Abu-Shakra M,Urowitz MB,Gladman DD,Ritchie S

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Legionnaire's disease (LD) is most commonly caused by Legionella pneumophila (L. pneumophila). In immunocompromised patients LD can cause necrosis of the lung parenchyma with abscess formation and cavitation. Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is an autoimmune disorder with features of both primary and secondary immun...

journal_title：Lupus

authors： Khokher W,Kesireddy N,Adunse J,Mudiyanselage PH,Iftikhar S,Assaly R

更新日期：2021-01-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is an autoantibody and immune complex mediated disease. However, it is the ensuing inflammatory process that leads to irreversible organ damage. In fact several murine models of SLE suggest that this inflammatory organ damage can be prevented even in the presence of autoantibodies. G...

journal_title：Lupus

authors： Aringer M,Smolen JS

更新日期：2004-01-01 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：:We report the case of a fetus with proliferative glomerulonephritis in the context of maternal systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). The pattern of the renal lesions correspond to the class III of revisited WHO classification of glomerulonephritis in SLE. Amniotic fluid analysis showed a high level of albumin and the pr...

journal_title：Lupus

authors： Daïkha-Dahmane F,Bault JP,Molina-Gomes D,Hillion D,Ville Y

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The disease activity of patients suffering from lupus nephritis usually becomes quiescent after the onset of end stage renal failure. Reactivation of lupus activity, especially after a long period of dialysis, is uncommon. Factors that might trigger off lupus reactivation after dialysis have not been well defined. We ...

journal_title：Lupus

authors： Lui SL,Lam MF,Tse KC,Lo WK

更新日期：2002-01-01 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