Lupus can affect organ function and cause permanent damage to the lungs, heart, kidneys, and other organs. Sometimes the organ injury is not apparent to those affected by lupus. The leading causes of death in p
Is lupus a critical illness? Lupus is not an easy disease to diagnose. There isn’t a definitive lab test that can indicate that you have lupus. To make things more difficult, symptoms of lupus can often be vague or easily attributable to other causes. To make things more difficult, sympt...
The lupus disease process creates certain proteins and antibodies that can causeinflammationin your brain and around your nerves. They can also damage your blood vessels, which makes it harder to get oxygen to your brain, and makesblood clotsmore likely. It isn’t clear why some people with l...
The disease causes inflammatory lesions in areas such as the renal tubes, brain, heart, lungs, and gastrointestinal tract.Answer and Explanation: Systemic lupus erythematosus that affects the kidneys is called lupus nephritis. It is a condition where the kidneys are unable to efficiently remove...B...
What happens in Legionnaires' disease? Legionnaires' is not an infection that one acquires due to direct contact with an infected person. It is rather a disease that one gets due to direct contact with the bacteria. Most people do not feel the symptoms of Legionnaires' at the start. The sy...
I can’t locate the reference at the moment, but I have learned that some 10 percent of people diagnosed with Hashimoto’s are diagnosed using an ultrasound, and I recommend that everyone with Hashimoto’s or thyroid disease get at least one ultrasound in their lifetime, especially women of...
Gastrointestinal tract diseases such as Celiac disease or Crohn's disease Autoimmune disorders such as systemic lupus erythematosus or Behçet's disease Other immune system weaknesses such as a cold or the flu, HIV/AIDS, or an organ transplant Systemic conditions such as Crohn's disease or nutrit...
Neuroimmunology is one of the fastest-growing fields in the life sciences, and for good reason; it fills the gap between two principal systems of the organism, the nervous system and the immune system. Although both systems affect each other through bidi
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Recently, two different studies1 2 applied the criteria of the Lupus Low Disease Activity State (LLDAS)3 to the data sets of the BLISS-524 and BLISS-765 phase III trials of belimumab. The studies reported similar LLDAS attainment frequencies at key time points; however, not identical. We ...