Therapeutic drug monitoring of mycophenolate mofetil for the treatment of severely active lupus nephritis.

abstract：:Thymus-derived CD4(+)CD25(high)Foxp3(+) T-regulatory cells (Tregs) have an important role in the mechanisms of peripheral immune tolerance and in the prevention of pathogenic autoimmunity through the suppression of proliferation and production of pro-inflammatory cytokines in effector immune cells. Some studies have s...

journal_title：Lupus

authors： La Cava A

更新日期：2008-05-01 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：:This review briefly defines the heat shock proteins (hsps), their classification and their functions. The hypothesis that links hsps to the development of autoimmunity is explored, together with the rationale for investigation of the relationship between hsps and systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). Thus, published wor...

journal_title：Lupus

authors： Dhillon V,Latchman D,Isenberg D

更新日期：1991-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The heterogeneous spectrum of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) often presents with secondary complications such as cardiovascular disease (CVD), infections and neoplasms. Our study assessed whether the presence of SLE independently increases or reduces the disparities, accounting for the already higher risk...

journal_title：Lupus

authors： Falasinnu T,Chaichian Y,Li J,Chung S,Waitzfelder BE,Fortmann SP,Palaniappan L,Simard JF

更新日期：2019-12-01 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：:We examined the prevalence of clinical and immunologic features of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) by race, sex and age in a population-based study of 265 SLE patients. Patients fulfilled the American College of Rheumatology classification criteria. The median time between diagnosis and study enrollment was 13 mont...

journal_title：Lupus

authors： Cooper GS,Parks CG,Treadwell EL,St Clair EW,Gilkeson GS,Cohen PL,Roubey RA,Dooley MA

更新日期：2002-01-01 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：:Progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML) is a rare, deadly demyelinating disease of the central nervous system, which is caused by a reactivation of the DNA polyomavirus JC and occurs in immunosuppressed individuals. So far, only 25 cases have been described in patients with SLE and none survived without antiv...

journal_title：Lupus

authors： Nived O,Bengtsson AA,Jönsen A,Sturfelt G

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Proteinuria is a well-known risk factor for the progression of renal dysfunction in chronic kidney disease; however, its importance for estimating the prognosis of lupus nephritis requires verification. Korean adult patients with renal biopsy-diagnosed diffuse proliferative lupus nephritis who had undergone three or m...

journal_title：Lupus

authors： Koo HS,Kim S,Chin HJ

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Up to 80% of patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) are treated with nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAID) for musculoskeletal symptoms, serositis and headache. This survey reviews the literature on non-selective and selective inhibitors of cyclooxygenases, with an emphasis on the efficacy and safety ...

journal_title：Lupus

authors： Ostensen M,Villiger PM

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although osteoporosis has traditionally been considered a disease of women, men also incur substantial bone loss with aging, and elderly men have age-specific hip fracture incidence rates and vertebral fracture prevalence rates that are at least half those in women. Early postmenopausal bone loss (which results in the...

journal_title：Lupus

authors： Khosla S,Melton LJ 3rd,Riggs BL

更新日期：1999-01-01 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：:A case of recurrent cerebral infarctions in a 42-year-old woman affected by polyarteritis nodosa and antiphospholipid syndrome is reported. Two-dimensional echocardiography revealed grossly thickened mitral valve leaflets, possibly related to the presence of antiphospholipid antibodies. Thus, an embolic source at mitr...

journal_title：Lupus

authors： Morelli S,Perrone C,Paroli M

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Introduction Osteoprotegerin (OPG) is a member of the tumor necrosis factor (TNF) receptor family. It has recently been demonstrated that OPG is produced by a variety of tissues, including the cardiovascular system (heart, arteries, veins), lung, kidney, immune tissues, and bone. The OPG-RANKL signaling pathway is str...

journal_title：Lupus

authors： Kiani AN,Aukrust P,Ueland T,Hollan I,Barr E,Magder LS,Petri M

更新日期：2017-07-01 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：:The aim of this study was to describe the clinical course of patients with lupus nephritis (LN) who attain a sustained remission (SR) and identify predictors of SR. A retrospective study of patients with biopsy-proven LN were followed for up to 10 years. SR was defined as normal renal function, urine protein <0.5g/day...

journal_title：Lupus

authors： Barber CE,Geldenhuys L,Hanly JG

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:The International Society of Nephrology/Renal Pathology Society (ISN/RPS) pathological classification criteria of lupus nephritis are limited to glomerular injury. Although the tubulointerstitium is commonly involved, the importance of such involvement is not well defined. The major objective of this study...

journal_title：Lupus

authors： Alsuwaida AO

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nodular or pseudomembranous tracheobronchitis due to infection by Aspergillus species is an uncommon presentation of invasive aspergillosis. Most cases have been described in severely immunocompromised hosts. We describe the case of a 23-year-old woman, with recently diagnosed systemic lupus erythematosus, who develop...

journal_title：Lupus

authors： Angelotti T,Krishna G,Scott J,Berry G,Weinacker A

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycobacterial infections can cause a variety of different manifestations. The increasing incidence of these infections worldwide brought another medical dilemma: immunological manifestations characterized by the presence of many autoantibodies and concomitant presence of autoimmune diseases. The burden of tuberculosis...

journal_title：Lupus

authors： Machado Ribeiro F,Goldenberg T

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), a disorder of the immune system, is potentially curable by allogeneic bone marrow transplantation (alloBMT). Until recently, alloBMT was limited by donor availability and toxicity. Reduced intensity conditioning (RIC) combined with post-transplantation cyclophosphamide (PTCy) has im...

journal_title：Lupus

authors： Gladstone DE,Petri M,Bolaños-Meade J,Dezern AE,Jones RJ,Fine D,Brodsky RA

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our aims were to assess the frequency of false-positive IgM antibodies for cytomegalovirus in pregnant women with autoimmune diseases and in healthy women (controls) and to determine their relationship with pregnancy outcome. Data from 133 pregnancies in 118 patients with autoimmune diseases and from 222 pregnancies i...

journal_title：Lupus

authors： De Carolis S,Santucci S,Botta A,Garofalo S,Martino C,Perrelli A,Salvi S,Degennaro V,de Belvis A,Ferrazzani S,Scambia G

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We performed this study to determine sensitivity and specificity of pleural effusion antinuclear antibodies (ANA) at a titer of ≥1 : 160, and the ratio of pleural effusion to serum ANA of ≥1, to distinguish between pleural fluid from lupus pleuritis and other causes. A prospective study of 54 patients with pleural eff...

journal_title：Lupus

authors： Toworakul C,Kasitanon N,Sukitawut W,Wichinun R,Louthrenoo W

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Autoantibodies to DNA were discovered over 40 years ago following the discovery a few years earlier of the 'LE' cell phenomenon by Hargraves and colleagues in 1948. These investigators noted that, when leucocytes were incubated with serum from lupus patients, changes in the nucleus could be seen together with phagocyt...

journal_title：Lupus

authors： Mageed RA,Zack DJ

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a human monoclonal antibody designated WRI 176 beta and a common idiotype that it carries. This antibody was derived from the spleen of a patient with SLE. WRI 176 is an IgM kappa monoclonal reacting with ssDNA, dsDNA, poly(dT) and it is likely that mAb WRI 176 beta is a representative of the so-called nat...

journal_title：Lupus

authors： Blanco F,Longhurst C,Watts R,Kalsi J,Wiloch HW,Youinou P,Latchman DS,Isenberg DA

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of TNF alpha (TNFalpha) inhibitors has made a strong impact on the management of rheumatoid and psoriatic arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis and Crohn disease. Side effects of these agents include the development of autoantibodies and a lupus-like syndrome (drug-related lupus, DRL). Here, a case of a patient wh...

journal_title：Lupus

authors： Kocharla L,Mongey AB

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies have suggested an association between primary antiphospholipid syndrome (PAPS), antiphospholipid antibodies and some major histocompatibility complex (MHC) antigens. We have studied the relationship between MHC class II antigens and PAPS in 19 patients from the south of Spain. Univariant analysis showed...

journal_title：Lupus

authors： Camps MT,Cuadrado MJ,Ocón P,Alonso A,Gutierrez A,Guil M,Grana MI,de Ramón E

更新日期：1995-02-01 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：OBJECTIVE:We compared the 1997 update of the 1982 American College of Rheumatology (ACR-97) and the 2012 Systemic Lupus International Collaborating Clinics (SLICC-12) criteria, for earlier classification of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) in a multiethnic urban Asian SLE population. METHODS:Patients from a retrospe...

journal_title：Lupus

authors： Low ESH,Krishnaswamy G,Thumboo J

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) is a chronic disease with significant morbidity and functional disability. The traditional treatment for RA relied on the use of NSAIDs early in the disease course, followed by disease-modifying agents later. More recently, the disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drugs (DMARDs) have become the m...

journal_title：Lupus

authors： Khraishi MM,Singh G

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In vitro data showed that immunoglobulin G (IgG) from lupus nephritis (LN) patients could bind to proximal renal tubular epithelial cells (PTEC), but the clinical relevance of such binding remained unclear. Binding of IgG and subclasses to PTEC was measured by cellular ELISA (expressed as OD index) in 189 serial serum...

journal_title：Lupus

authors： Yap DY,Yung S,Zhang Q,Tang C,Chan TM

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00