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INTRODUCTION In systemic lupus erythematosus, acute kidney injury is usually associated with severe lupus nephritis and rarely associated with other glomerular diseases. CASE PRESENTATION We recently encountered a patient with acute kidney injury that was associated with minimal change disease in systemic lupus erythematosus. A 26-year-old Chinese woman who had a history of systemic lupus ery...

Systemic lupus erythematosus is a multi-system inflammatory disease. The clinical manifestations are diverse. Hepatic manifestation is a rarely seen complication of systemic lupus erythematosus. We report a case of complication of systemic lupus erythematosus presenting as cholestatic hepatitis in a 56-year-old Chinese woman. The cholestatic hepatitis progressed as part of the lupus activity an...

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 ...

objective(s): systemic lupus erythematosus (sle) is a multi-factorial autoimmune disease which may be characterized by t lymphocytes dysfunctions. th17 cells have been identified as new effector cells, which play an important role in the pathogenesis. in recent years, immunomodulatory effect of vitamin d3 has been noticed. in the present experiment, the effect of vitamin d3 on the expression of...

isolated hematuria and its association with proteinuria, and urinary cast and systemic lupus erythematosus (sle) disease activity, and decision for renal biopsy is a dilemma for physician in sle patients. the aim of this study was to investigate 1. whether isolated hematuria is associated with active sle, 2. to determine duration between hematuria and proteinuria and urinary cast, and 3. to det...

aim and background: systemic lupus erythematosus (sle) is a chronic autoimmune disease usually associated with high levels of pain and impairment in different systems, producing high levels of stress in patients who suffer from it. the purpose of this study was to consider the effectiveness of cognitive-behavioral stress management (cbsm) therapy on stress of female patients with sle. methods a...

background: diagnosis and treatment of neuropsychiatric lupus is still a major challenge in clinical practice. we investigated the association between depression and anti-ribosomal p (anti-p) antibodies in a sample of iranian patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (sle). materials and methods: th is cross-sectional study was conducted on adult patients with sle referring to a referral out-p...