Objectives Patients with SLE take multiple medications. Within a large prospective longitudinal SLE cohort, we characterised ...

A 23-year-old white woman with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) developed Pseudomonas aeruginosa pneumonia while taking prednisone 25 ... nonblanching purpuric rash over both forearms and ...

Your gut microbiome can trigger an immune response, leading to chronic systemic inflammation and lupus. Here are some tips to ...

Few treatments exist today beyond powerful steroids to knock ... systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), for example, is characterized initially by skin rashes—in particular, a butterfly-shaped ...

However, for the vast majority of lupus flares the initial treatment has to be systemic glucocorticoids. For most manifestations, prednisone at 0.25–0.5 mg/kg body weight (or equivalent ...

When Aleta was first diagnosed with lupus, she wasn’t ready to share her diagnosis with anyone beyond her closest family and ...

The etiology of these rashes can be divided into those that are specific to lupus and those that can ... are commonly used to treat SCLE. Steroids and cytotoxic agents may be used in severe ...

Lupus is a condition often ... are commonly prescribed for skin rashes and joint pain, and may reduce flare frequency. Corticosteroids like prednisone help control inflammation, especially during ...

After being all-but written off a year ago, AstraZeneca’s anifrolumab has been reborn with new data that suggest it could help to end a drought in treatments for autoimmune disease systemic ...

A 41-year-old man was evaluated for swelling in the ankles and syncope. CT of the chest showed bilateral mediastinal and ...

Children with lupus nephritis who receive belimumab achieve treatment targets faster, and can taper glucocorticoids earlier, than those using standard immunotherapy, according to data published in ...