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Rhupus Syndrome: Assessment of its prevalence and its clinical and instrumental characteristics in a prospective cohort of 103 SLE patients sciencedirect.com Incomplete Lupus Erythematosus May Require Immunomodulatory Treatments Although usually…
Gastrointestinal system involvement in systemic lupus erythematosus Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a multisystem disorder which can affect the gastrointestinal (GI) system. Although GI symptoms can manifest in 50% of…
SLE Patients Benefit From Routine Echocardiography Cardiac involvement common in systemic lupus erythematosus medpagetoday.com Heart involvement in systemic lupus erythematosus: a systemic review and meta-analysis Cardiovascular diseases are one of…
Lupus Nephritis Lupus nephritis, one of the most serious manifestations of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), usually arises within 5 years of diagnosis; however, renal failure rarely occurs before American College…
Lupus or not lupus? Neuropsychiatric symptom attribution in systemic lupus erythematosus academic.oup.com Complement Driven Vasculopathy Underlies Neuropsychiatric Lupus Neuropsychiatric lupus (NPSLE) is a diagnostic challenge as its clinical manifestations are…
Bacterial Curli Amyloid: Researchers Examine the Role of Bacterial Infection in Lupus Pathology New research has found that the amyloid protein curli triggers immune activation and autoantibody production in lupus-prone…
What We've Learned From Studying Microbiomes What is a microbiome you ask? It's the tiny living community that surrounds us all and is the subject of investigation by human and…
Your Abdomen's Layer of Fat Is Also an Important Immune Organ The omentum is a large sheet of fat that stretches across the gut, and researchers believe it may play…
Tofacitinib Effective in Ulcerative Colitis Tofacitinib is currently approved for use in… rheumnow.com Arthritis Drug Shows Promise for Ulcerative Colitis But treatment isn't yet approved by FDA to treat inflammatory…
Intestinal Behçet and Crohn’s disease: two sides of the same coin Behçet’s disease (BD) and Crohn’s disease (CD) are chronic immune-mediated, inflammatory disorders affecting many different systems (joints, skin, eyes,……
