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 Skin? Lupus Skin Problems How to Treat a Lupus Skin Rash How to Prevent a Lupus Skin Rash 7 min read If you have lupus, you're likely to have skin issues at some point, but treatment can bring relief. Your doctor will likely prescribe a topical medication...
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 ...
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...
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 ...
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Hospitalization is common for people with lupus.One year or more after diagnosis, half of people with a severe form of the disease have had a hospital stay, 22% with a moderate form have had an overnight stay, and 13% with a mild form have been hospitalized. The average 3-day hospital...
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...
lupus; diabetes; an allergy tosulfa drugs; kidney disease; or cirrhosis or other liver disease. Tell your doctor if you have an MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) or any type of scan using a radioactive dye that is injected into a vein. Contrast dyes and furosemide can harm your kidneys. ...
“memory” of that pathogen for many years, so a faster response can be mounted with subsequent encounters. This immunological memory is the principle behind vaccines. They prime our immune system using an encounter with an inactivated virus, which allows us to fight off that disease quicker and...