Background Although the increased risk of cardiovascular disease in patients with SLE is well-documented, effective tools for ...

Background Lupus nephritis (LN) is a severe and prevalent complication of SLE. Compound Muniziqi granule (CMG), a traditional remedy, is commonly used to treat immune system-related disorders. However ...

Cyclophosphamide (CyP) is perhaps the most venerable of immunosuppressants used to treat lupus nephritis (LN). Its use was established in the so-called NIH regimen in the 1980s and high-dose monthly ...

Objectives To evaluate the Systemic Lupus International Collaborating Clinics-Frailty Index (SLICC-FI) as a predictor of hospitalisations in patients with SLE from a Latin American cohort. Methods ...

Objective To evaluate the treatment patterns, medication adherence, concomitant corticosteroid use, factors influencing sequence of therapies (SOTs), healthcare resource utilisation (HCRU) and ...

Objective Lupus nephritis (LN) is a major cause of morbidity and mortality, affecting up to 60% of patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). The perspectives of patients with SLE have been ...

Nailfold capillaroscopy is a non-invasive imaging technique for morphological assessment of capillaries in the nailfold area and represents a key method for differentiation of primary and secondary ...

Objective Lupus erythematosus (LE) is a complicated disease with highly heterogeneous clinical manifestations. Previous studies have rarely included all subgroups of patients with lupus and have ...

Objective We previously reported that lupus anticoagulant (LAC) is the main predictor of poor pregnancy outcome in antiphospholipid antibody (aPL)-positive patients. We sought to confirm this finding ...

Objective Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is associated with increased susceptibility to infections, including herpes zoster (HZ), due to the immune dysregulation experienced and frequent use of ...

Objective Treatment response in lupus nephritis (LN) is defined based on proteinuria, yet protocol kidney biopsy studies have shown that patients with lupus can have active nephritis in the absence of ...

Background Previous reports indicate that treating patients with lupus (SLE) at or close to the time of diagnosis successfully without using any, or minimal, corticosteroids by using B-cell depletion ...