Flare, Persistently Active Disease, and Serologically Active Clinically Quiescent Disease in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus: A 2-Year Follow-Up Study

Flare, Persistently Active Disease, and Serologically Active Clinically Quiescent Disease in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus: A 2-Year Follow-Up Study

OBJECTIVE Several indices have been proposed to assess disease activity in patients with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE). Recent studies have showed a prevalence of flare between 28-35.3%, persistently active disease (PAD) between 46%-52% and serologically active clinically quiescent (SACQ) disease ranging from 6 to 15%. Our goal was to evaluate the flare, PAD and SACQ rate incidence in a co...

Association of antinucleosome antibodies with disease flare in serologically active clinically quiescent patients with SLE

Active Systemic Lupus Erythematosus

CHIKAO MORIMOTO, ELLIS L. REINHERZ, and STUART F. SCHLOSSMAN, Division of Tumor Immunology, Sidney Farber Institute, Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115 PETER H. SCHUR, Robert B. Brigham Hospital, Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115 JOHN A. MILLS, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massa...

Rare Association between Kikuchi's Disease and Systemic Lupus Erythematosus

Histiocytic necrotizing lymphadenitis or Kikuchi's disease is a rare, benign condition of unknown etiology, which is usually characterized by cervical lymphadenopathy and fever. This disease is rarely associated with systemic lupus erythematosus. Here we describe, for the first time in Iran, a patient who developed systemic lupus erythematosus about 3 years after the initial diagnosis of Kikuch...

Systemic lupus erythematosus and thyroid disease: A 10-year study.

BACKGROUND This large-scale study aims to analyze the association of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) with thyroid diseases. METHODS In this retrospective, nationwide cohort study, 1633 newly diagnosed SLE patients from the National Health Insurance Research Database in 2000 were examined and data on patients with diagnoses of hyperthyroidism, hypothyroidism, and autoimmune thyroiditis were...