Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is associated with an increased risk of developing systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), with emerging evidence linking chronic psychological stress to immune ...

If you have lupus, you're probably taken aback by the fact that it is incurable, but the good news is there is no shortage of treatment options, and with the right treatment you can live a healthy ...

Long-term control of cardiovascular risk factors and sustained clinical remission help to mitigate the higher risk for ...

When Fatigue Isn’t Just Tiredness In the outpatient clinic, it’s not uncommon to meet young women who’ve been living with ...

Inspired by her own mother's battle, Dr. Lauren Powell is on a mission to improve care for lupus patients of all backgrounds.

Objective To assess the efficacy and safety of belimumab in paediatric versus adult patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). Methods We performed across-study comparisons of patients with ...

Lupus, as well as other systemic autoimmune illnesses such as rheumatoid arthritis or scleroderma, are chronic, lifelong diseases. Although not unusually susceptible to develop cancer, some patients ...

HSS Rheumatologist, Dr. Jessica Berman indicates that research estimates 40% of lupus patients have persistent severe fatigue, meaning that the fatigue stays for a long period of time. However, in her ...

A woman with an erratic lifestyle and history of alcohol misuse bled to death in her home after unpicking a dialysis graft ...

Methods SLE patients with active disease activity were recruited as subject of this study. Diagnosis criteria of SLE was using American College of Rheumatology (ACR) 1997 revised and MEX-SLEDAI was ...

A Melbourne hospital has successfully treated an incurable auto-immune condition with a “game-changing” cancer therapy for ...

We describe 22 cases of DAH in a US lupus cohort of approximately 1000 patients, and compare them to 66 controls from the same outpatient cohort. Methods We captured variables pertaining to diagnoses ...