orf is a mucocutaneous disease that occurs when non-intact skin comes into contact with contaminated sheep saliva. the lesions may complicate to lymphangitis or secondary bacterial infection, but systemic complications such as erythema multiforme, maculopapular rash, and generalized lymphadenopathy are rare. in this paper, we present two cases of erythema multiforme following orf disease.

Nocardiosis is a rare infection that in more frequent in patients with systemic lupus Erythematosus and its clinical manifestations are nonspecific.while concurrent treatment by corticosteroids is an independent risk factor for nocardiosis it increases both diagnostic and mangement problems.this article presents a 35 years old woman who has systemic lupus Erythematosus.she was hospitalized due ...

background: systemic lupus erythematosus is a kind of multi-system autoimmune disorder with unknown aetiology and it produces antibodies against various tissues. case presentation:the patient wasa 44-year-old woman with a history of systemic lupus erythematosus for approximately five years, along with underlying diseases including peptic ulcers, asthma, hypertension and diabetes in the past 10 ...

background: systemic lupus erythematous is an autoimmune disease associated with atherosclerotic manifestations or metabolic disturbance due to inflammation. the aim of this study was to determine frequency of metabolic syndrome (mets) in sle compared to healthy controls. methods: in this cross-sectional study, 150 sle patients and 220 healthy volunteers were enrolled. mets was diagnosed accord...

Background: Systemic Lupus Erythematosus is a kind of multi-system autoimmune disorder with unknown aetiology and it produces antibodies against various tissues. Case Presentation:The patient wasa 44-year-old woman with a history of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus for approximately five years, along with underlying diseases including peptic ulcers, asthma, h...

"Lupus", from the Latin in the 19th century, had appeared in the West before and after the medical literature. In 1828, the French dermatologist Bette (Biett) firstly reported such a patient: facial skin has erythema the same as the the wolf bites. To the mid-19th century, there was a doctor named Carson Musharraf formally using the "lupus" (lupus erythematosus, LE) as the medical terminology, ...

RATIONAL Nodular cutaneous lupus mucinosis is regarded as a distinctive cutaneous mucinosis deposition with systemic lupus erythematosus(SLE). All typical cases occurred as asymptomatic cutaneous papules, nodules, or plaques on the trunk, upper and lower extremities, and face. Histopathology is mainly revealed abundant mucin deposits among splayed collagen bundles in the dermis. At the same tim...

The aim of this study was to analyze the changes in complements C3 and C4 and C-reactive protein (CRP) in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and rheumatoid arthritis (RA), and to evaluate the role of these indices in the differential diagnosis of SLE and RA. The first 347 patients with SLE, 382 patients with RA and 66 patients with erythema nodosum were selected for the measuremen...

various neurological complications occur in primary or secondary antiphospholipid syndrome (aps) consisting of cerebrovascular attacks, ocular events, dementia, seizure, chorea, and transverse myelopathy that are all related to the titer of antiphospholipid antibodies (apl). we report a patient with chorea and retinal vessel occlusion as manifestations of systemic lupus erythematosus (sle) and ...

systemic lupus erythematosus (sle) is a chronic autoimmune disease which results in damage to various organs. some animal studies have revealed that activation of toll-like receptors (tlrs) is important in the pathogenesis of sle. in the present study, the percentage of different immune cell subsets in 35 sle patients and 38 control subjects was analyzed by flow cytometry. we also assessed the ...