Lupus and AIDS are two diseases with striking similarities and significant differences. Both these diseases may occur concurrently in human beings. Moreover, both these diseases are multisystem diseases and have a range of dermatological manifestations. However, lupus is caused by the immune system mis...
What is LupusSarah
Lupus is a condition in which the immune system, for some currently unexplained reason, becomes overactive. In lupus, the body produces antibodies (which can appear years before the disease itself; Fidoi:10.1007/978-1-908517-55-5_2Professor Graham R. V. HughesDr Shirish Sangle...
Review Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Caroline H. Siegel, MD, MS; Lisa R. Sammaritano, MD JAMA Lupus is a chronic autoimmune disease that can damage various organs in the body. Systemic lupus erythematosus, commonly called lupus, affects about 3.4 million people worldwide, approximately 90% of who...
Lupus is a condition in which the immune system, for some currently unexplained reason, becomes overactive. In lupus, the body produces antibodies (which can appear years before the disease itself; Figure 2.1) and these in turn can damage sensitive organs and tissues, notably the small blood ...
Is It Really Lupus? Initially, lupus that affects the joints can mimic rheumatoid arthritis. Rheumatoid arthritis can also cause fatigue. The skin rash of lupus, however, is not seen in patients with rheumatoid arthritis. There are also specific lab tests that can help in distinguishing the dise...
Lupus nephritisDespite marked improvements in the survival of patients with severe lupus nephritis over the past 50 years, the rate of complete clinical remission after immune suppression therapy is <50% and renal impairment still occurs in 40% of affected patients. An appreciation of the factors ...
So why would the 23-year-old songstress need chemo for lupus? While chemotherapy is best known for killing cancer cells in people with cancer (and lupus is not a form of cancer), lower doses of chemotherapy drugs can help control an overactive immune system in other diseases, too, includi...
lupus nephritis is a result of inflammation in the kidneys that is associated with an overactive immune (defense) system. As a consequence, antibodies against the patient's own tissues (autoantibodies) form antibody-tissue (antibody-antigen) unions (complexes) that in turn deposit in the kidney ...
The root cause of autoimmunity is unknown, but some people are more likely to have it than others. Heredity, exposure to solvents, pollution, and other environmental factors could play a role together with an unhealthy diet. Unlike non-inflammatory arthritis which usually affects the elderly, infl...