How does cutaneous lupus disease area and severity index (CLASI) compare with physician assessments of cutaneous activity and damage in lupus?M., JollyN., KazmiR.A., MikolaitisJ.A., Block
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 patients with lupus are active disease, particularly kidney injury, infections, and ca...
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...
How does lupus affect the kidneys?Systemic Lupus Erythematosus:Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a chronic, multisystem, inflammatory disease. It is an autoimmune disorder that produces a variety of autoantibodies against the body's nucleic acids, erythrocytes, phospholipids, and lymphocytes, among ...
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
What effect does severe sunburn have on the integumentary system? What disease affects the integumentary and endocrine system? How is the integumentary system affected by herpes? Is lupus an infectious disease? Is dermatitis a disease in the integumentary system?
Ideally, the two complement one another.17 The PSI heavily weights age and comorbidity but does not necessarily measure the severity of acute illness, relying on vital sign abnormalities that fall either above or below a dichotomous variable threshold. Thus, it may overestimate severity of illness ...
Rarely, people using TNF blockers have developed lupus-like symptoms. Tell your doctor if you have any symptoms such as a rash on your cheeks or other parts of the body, sensitivity to the sun, new joint or muscle pain, becoming very tired, chest pain or shortness of breath, swelling ...