Idiopathic intracranial hypertension as a significant cause of intractable headache in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus: a 15-year experience.

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：: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：:Q fever has extremely polymorphic features, and has been reported to be associated with positivity of several autoimmune antibodies. We report two cases of atypical Q fever with a clinical presentation highly suggestive of an inflammatory systemic disease with positivity of autoimmune antibodies, mimicking systemic lu...

journal_title：Lupus

authors： Durupt S,Puget M,Lega JC,Durieu I,Reynaud Q

更新日期：2017-01-01 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：OBJECTIVE:We analyzed data of lupus nephritis (LN) patients to find parameters that can predict remission. METHODS:Sixty-four LN patients who were diagnosed with class III, IV, V or V + III/IV by renal biopsy and were followed up for more than six months in our center were enrolled retrospectively. Receiver operating ...

journal_title：Lupus

authors： Liu G,Wang H,Le J,Lan L,Xu Y,Yang Y,Chen J,Han F

更新日期：2019-03-01 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：:Mycophenolate mofetil (MMF) initially found widespread use in the immunoprophylaxis of rejection in organ transplantation. It has subsequently been used in lupus glomerulonephritis, where early studies have shown it to be effective in induction and maintenance therapy. The randomized studies have mostly studied small ...

journal_title：Lupus

authors： Karim MY,Abbs IC

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Acute exercise increases IL-6, IL-10 and TNF-α levels in healthy subjects. There is no study evaluating the effect of exercise on cytokines level in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) patients. OBJECTIVE:Our aim was to assess IL-10, IL-6 and TNF-α levels at baseline and after acute physical exercise in pati...

journal_title：Lupus

authors： da Silva AE,dos Reis-Neto ET,da Silva NP,Sato EI

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to use transthoracic Doppler echocardiographic (TTE) imaging methods to identify cardiac dysfunction, an indicator of subclinical atherosclerosis in asymptomatic systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) patients in terms of cardiac effects. This study involved 80 patients: a study group (n = 50) an...

journal_title：Lupus

authors： Barutcu A,Aksu F,Ozcelik F,Barutcu CA,Umit GE,Pamuk ON,Altun A

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The objective of our study was to determine the incidence rates and risk factors of aortic aneurysm and aortic dissection among patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) using a nationwide population-based data set. METHODS:We conducted a retrospective cohort study using data from the Taiwan National ...

journal_title：Lupus

authors： Wang SH,Chang YS,Liu CJ,Lai CC,Chen TJ,Chen WS

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vaccination has been perhaps the most important achievement in medicine of the last century. A hoard of infectious diseases that used to claim the lives of many, especially children, have been prevented and some even eradicated. However, it is possible that within this gift there is hidden a 'Trojan Horse'. During the...

journal_title：Lupus

authors： Aron-Maor A,Shoenfeld Y

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Subepidermal bullous lesions and toxic epidermal necrolysis-like (TEN-like) lesions can occur in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). In this report, we describe a case of a patient previously diagnosed with SLE who experienced TEN-like skin lesions with unusual subacute progression in the contex...

journal_title：Lupus

authors： Yildirim Cetin G,Sayar H,Ozkan F,Kurtulus S,Kesici F,Sayarlioglu M

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a case of active systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) complicated with a large amount of pericardial effusion with diastolic collapse of right ventricle suggestive of tamponade. Isolates from surgical drainage of pericardial fluid showed Acinetobacter baumannii exhibiting multiple antibiotics resistance. Des...

journal_title：Lupus

authors： Lam SM,Huang TY

更新日期：1997-01-01 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：:Gastrointestinal manifestations of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) are common, occurring in about 50% of cases. They are usually mild, in the form of mouth ulcers, nausea, heartburn and mild abdominal pain, but they can be severe in cases of gastrointestinal vasculitis. In this report we describe an unusual combina...

journal_title：Lupus

authors： Bedaiwi M,Alkubeyyer MA,Al Arfaj AS

更新日期：2014-02-01 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：:Lupus nephritis (LN) is usually associated with widespread effacement of the podocytes' foot processes leading to proteinuria. Induction of urokinase receptor (uPAR) signaling in podocytes leads to foot process effacement and urinary protein loss via promoting podocytes' motility and kidney permeability in the glomeru...

journal_title：Lupus

authors： Cheng CC,Lee YF,Lan JL,Wu MJ,Hsieh TY,Lin NN,Wang JM,Chiu YT

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Obstetric antiphospholipid syndrome (APS) remains a clinical challenge for practitioners, with several controversial points that have not been answered so far. This Obstetric APS Task Force met on the 16th International Congress on Antiphospholipid Antibodies in Manchester, England, to discuss about treatment, diagnos...

journal_title：Lupus

authors： de Jesús GR,Benson AE,Chighizola CB,Sciascia S,Branch DW

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the effect of beta 2-GPI on binding of antibodies in sera from patients with leprosy and patients with the antiphospholipid syndrome (APS) to CL in enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays (ELISAs). Increased levels of IgG aCL were detected in 59 of 61 leprosy patients' sera by the standard aCL-ELISA in the prese...

journal_title：Lupus

authors： Hojnik M,Gilburd B,Ziporen L,Blank M,Tomer Y,Scheinberg MA,Tincani A,Rozman B,Shoenfeld Y

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Associations of polymorphisms in vitamin D receptor (VDR) with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) have already been explored by many studies. The aim of this meta-analysis was to better clarify associations between polymorphisms in VDR and RA/SLE by combing the results of all relevant stu...

journal_title：Lupus

authors： Zhang WT,Jin TF,Chen L

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cutaneous manifestations of lupus erythematosus (LE) are, usually, characteristic enough to permit an easy diagnosis. However, some patients may present less typical lesions, associated or not to the classic ones. Therefore, irrespectively of the variety of LE (acute, subacute and chronic), in absence of the typical b...

journal_title：Lupus

authors： Mascaro JM,Herrero C,Hausmann G

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Objectives The objective of this paper is to study the time trend and risk factors of avascular bone necrosis (AVN) in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). Methods Between 1999 and 2014, patients who fulfilled the ACR criteria for SLE and developed symptomatic AVN were identified from our cohort database ...

journal_title：Lupus

authors： Tse SM,Mok CC

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a chronic, multisystemic, immune-mediated disorder associated with a substantial hospitalization risk. As a comparatively rare disease, there is a sparsity of research examining the burden of hospital admission in the contemporary era. We aim to describe national trends ...

journal_title：Lupus

authors： Hannah J,Galloway J,Kaul A

更新日期：2019-06-01 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：:Objectives The carotid intima-media thickness (CIMT) and carotid arterial stiffness index (CASI) act as the surrogate markers of atherosclerosis. We aim to assess CIMT and CASI in pediatric systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). Methods Patients ≤ 20 years old fulfilling diagnostic criteria for SLE were enrolled. Patient...

journal_title：Lupus

authors： Su-Angka N,Khositseth A,Vilaiyuk S,Tangnararatchakit K,Prangwatanagul W

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate the prevalence and characteristics of anti-endothelial cell antibodies (AECA) in a large cohort of patients with several well defined systemic autoimmune diseases, in order to determine their relationship with the clinical and laboratory features of these diseases. METHODS:Clinical and laborat...

journal_title：Lupus

authors： Navarro M,Cervera R,Font J,Reverter JC,Monteagudo J,Escolar G,López-Soto A,Ordinas A,Ingelmo M

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) can affect all heart structures including the conduction system, with either reversible or permanent derangement. However, only a few cases of adult SLE and complete atrioventricular (AV) block have been reported. We describe a young pregnant woman who initially presented with comple...

journal_title：Lupus

authors： Lo CH,Wei JCC,Tsai CF,Li LC,Huang SW,Su CH

更新日期：2018-09-01 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：:The purpose of this study was to determine the prevalence and correlates of fibromyalgia (FM) in a prospective, multiethnic systemic lupus (SLE) cohort. A total of 266 SLE patients with disease duration of < or = 5 years at study entry were evaluated longitudinally for the presence of FM (per ACR criteria). Sociodemog...

journal_title：Lupus

authors： Friedman AW,Tewi MB,Ahn C,McGwin G Jr,Fessler BJ,Bastian HM,Baethge BA,Reveille JD,Alarcón GS,LUMINA Study Group.

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In examining reasons for premature atherosclerosis in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), we previously reported low levels of the cholesterol transport protein apolipoprotein A1 (apoA1) in these patients, and specific antibodies to purified apoA1 were identified in the sera of 5 out of 30 lupus patients. The current ...

journal_title：Lupus

authors： Dinu AR,Merrill JT,Shen C,Antonov IV,Myones BL,Lahita RG

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00