Characterization of damage in Portuguese lupus patients
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Characterization of damage in Portuguese lupus patients.
Sir, We read with interest the report ‘Characterization of damage in Portuguese lupus patients: analysis of a national lupus registry’ and wish to emphasize that the frequency and cumulative damage score present in a lupus patient population is also determined by the type of organ damage. In the registry study of 976 patients by Gonçalves et al., the average SDI score was 0.71 1.22 and the freq...
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عنوان ژورنال: Lupus
سال: 2015
ISSN: 0961-2033,1477-0962
DOI: 10.1177/0961203315580872