The patient is a 45-year-old Caucasian male with a 5-year history of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). He has flat erythema that is more prominent on the upper chest, neck, and head. The rash ...

Body Parts That Lupus Can Affect A lupus rash and other skin changes can occur as one of the first signs of lupus. About 80% ...

Systemic lupus erythematosus, or lupus, is a complex autoimmune disease in which the immune system mistakenly attacks healthy tissue, often affecting the skin, joints, kidneys and nervous system.

with the most common being systemic lupus erythematosus. The main symptoms of lupus include joint pain, rashes, and tiredness. According to the Lupus Foundation of America, more than 1.5 million ...

In milder cases this can be accomplished by relatively simple means: a limited cutaneous rash may be ... the vast majority of lupus flares the initial treatment has to be systemic glucocorticoids.

Assistant Professor Andrew Monteith's lab in the Department of Microbiology is documenting how key immune cells detect ...

Cutaneous lupus erythematosus is a common manifestation of systemic lupus erythematosus. The condition is characterized by rashes on various parts of the body including the face and scalp ...

The lesions now referred to as discoid lupus were described in 1833 by Cazenave under the term “erythema centrifugum,” while the butterfly distribution of the facial rash was noted by ... Kaposi first ...

New research suggests the use of oral prednisone should be limited in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus with a history of recurrent pericarditis.

This week we are going to discuss one of the many rheumatologic diseases specific systemic lupus erythematosus ... One of the most obvious symptoms of lupus is “Butterfly rash” over the ...