Lupus and myositis are chronic autoimmune conditions that have distinct causes and treatments. Read about their symptoms and ...

We are grateful to our colleagues for their interest and thoughtful comments on our Seminar about systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE).1 We appreciate the remarks from Qihe Xu, and Thomas Pabst and ...

Belimumab combined with SOC was successful for inducing remission among patients with SLE, including those with LN.

Systemic lupus erythematosus is a potentially fatal autoimmune disease that is characterized by wide-spread inflammation and tissue damage that can affect any part of the body. Commonly affected ...

Skin and muscle biopsies disclosed changes consistent with chronic discoid lupus erythematosus. An electrocardiogram and an x-ray film of the chest showed no abnormalities. The patient was given ...

UpToDate. Clarke J. Management of Refractory Discoid Lupus and Subacute Cutaneous Lupus. UpToDate. Wallace DJ. Overview of the Management and Prognosis of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus in Adults.

There are two main types, affecting a total of 70,000 people in the UK: discoid lupus and systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). Discoid lupus, the more common type, only affects the skin, causing round ...

Antibodies to histone are sometimes found in people with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). But more often, histones are found in people with drug-induced lupus. This type of lupus is caused by ...

Listen to more stories on the Noa app. Lupus, doctors like to say, affects no two patients the same. The disease causes the immune system to go rogue in a way that can strike virtually any organ ...

Having battled systemic lupus erythematosus for over 20 years and recently suffering from kidney failure, she filmed a final farewell to her father, reassuring him, “I will no longer trouble you.” ...

GSK will pay $300 million to acquire a bispecific antibody from Shanghai-based Chimagen Biosciences that it believes has the potential to treat autoimmune diseases like lupus. The drug, which is ...