Patterns and influence of familial autoimmunity in pediatric systemic lupus erythematosus

Patterns and influence of familial autoimmunity in pediatric systemic lupus erythematosus

UNLABELLED BACKGROUND A high prevalence of autoimmune disease (AD) has been documented in relatives of adult patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). However, data on familial inheritance patterns in pediatric SLE patients is scarce. FINDINGS The charts of 69 patients with pediatric-onset SLE were reviewed retrospectively. The primary aim was to describe the prevalence and types o...

Neurobrucellosis in systemic lupus erythematosus

Background: Brucellosis is a zoonotic infection which is endemic in many countries. It is a multisystem disease which may present with a broad spectrum of clinical manifestations and complications. Neurobrucellosis is an uncommon complication of brucellosis. Case presentation: A 25-year-old woman with a history of lupus for 5 months referred to the emergency ward of Shahid Beheshti Hosp...

Pediatric systemic lupus erythematosus

Atherosclerosis, autoimmunity, and systemic lupus erythematosus.

Atherosclerosis can be considered a chronic inflammatory condition of the vessel wall. Fatty streaks, the earliest morphological lesions of atherosclerosis, are caused by lipids (primarily of cholesteryl esters) accumulated within the macrophages (foam cells) and smooth muscle cells in the intimal layer. These lesions progress into atherosclerotic plaques containing extracellular matrix compone...

Systemic Lupus Erythematosus and Thyroid Autoimmunity

Most of the studies present in the literature show a high prevalence, and incidence, of new cases of hypothyroidism and autoimmune thyroiditis (AT) in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) patients, overall in female gender. A limited number of cases of Graves' disease have been also reported in SLE patients, in agreement with the higher prevalence of thyroid autoimmunity. It has been also demonst...