Lupus

Lupus nephritis is an inflammation of the kidney caused by systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), a disease of the immune system. SLE causes harm to the skin, joints, kidneys, and brain.
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Lupus Overview
Systemic lupus erythematosus (lupus, SLE) is an autoimmune disease in which a person’s immune system attacks various organs or cells of the body causing damage and dysfunction.
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Lupus can cause disease of the skin, heart, lungs, kidneys, joints, and nervous system. When only the skin is involved, the condition is called discoid lupus.
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Lupus
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(l´ps), noninfectious chronic disease in which antibodies in an individual's immune system attack the body's own substances.
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Lupus is an autoimmune disorder that can affect many parts of your body, including your joints. Joint pain — similar to that caused by arthritis — is often the first symptom of lupus. Lupus may affect any joint.
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Lupus is Latin for "wolf," and some think that the butterfly-shaped facial rash that often accompanies the disease resembles the markings of a wolf. But this signature does not lead to an easy diagnosis for all lupus sufferers.
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Lupus nephritis is one complication ofsystemic lupus erythematosus (SLE ). It is related to the autoimmune process of lupus, where the immune system produces antibodies (antinuclear antibody and others) against body components.
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LUPUS - A systemic disease that results from an autoimmune mechanism. Individuals with lupus will produce antibodies to their own body tissues. The resultant inflammation can cause kidney damage, arthritis, pericarditis, and vasculitis.
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Lupus - means "wolf", referring to the trademark shape of the rash on the faces of many patients with lupus.
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Lupus erythematosus is an autoimmune disease that affects roughly 500,000 to 2 million Americans.
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Lupus
Systemic lupus erythematosus (known as lupus) is an inflammatory disease that affects organs throughout the body.
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Lupus is considered to be a multifactorial condition. Multifactorial inheritance means that "many factors" are involved in causing a health problem.
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Lupus discoide - Vista de las lesiones en el trax
Lupus discoide en el rostro de un niño
Salpullido facial por lupus eritematoso sistmico ...
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LE (lupus erythematosus) cell test measures the presence of a special cell found mostly in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus.
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Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Rash on the Face ...
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The Lupus Site
St Thomas' Lupus Trust
Lupus Patients Understanding & Support ...
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Discoid lupus erythematosus
Definition
Discoid lupus erythematosus (DLE) is a disease in which coin-shaped (discoid) red bumps appear on the skin.
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Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
Lupus
An autoimmune disease, where something triggers the immune system to act against the bodies own tissues and produce abnormal antibodies , which results in episodes of inflammation in joints, ...
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The treatment of systemic lupus erythematosus. In W Koopman, ed., Arthritis and Allied Conditions: A Textbook of Rheumatology, 14th ed., vol. 2, pp. 1533"1545. Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins.
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LUPUS
SYMPTOMS"It usually begins suddenly with fever, fatigue, arthritis and/or joint pain. Those with it are frequently misdiagnosed as having rheumatoid arthritis. Ninety percent of lupus occurs in women in their 30s.
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lupus erythematosus
A usually chronic inflammatory disease that causes abnormalities of blood vessels and connective tissue in various parts of the body.
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lupus
A chronic inflammatory connective tissue disease marked by skin rashes, joint pain and swelling, inflammation of the kidneys, inflammation of the fibrous tissue surrounding the heart (i.e., the pericardium), as well as other problems.
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LJP 394 Phase II/III efficacy and safety studies in lupus patients with a history of renal disease to evaluate the drugs potential to prevent renal flares, to reduce the severity of the disease, ...
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Paraneoplastic autoimmune syndromes associated with thymoma include myasthenia gravis, polymyositis, lupus erythematosus, rheumatoid arthritis, thyroiditis, and Sjgren's syndrome, among others.
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Medications that cause bone loss: - The long-term use of glucocorticoids (medications prescribed for a wide range of diseases, including arthritis, asthma, Crohn's disease, lupus, and other diseases of the lungs, kidneys, and liver) can lead to a ...
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Medical illnesses - Extreme high blood pressure (hypertension), eclampsia (a complication of pregnancy), liver failure, kidney failure, sickle-cell disease, systemic lupus erythematosus (lupus or SLE) and many others ...
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systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), an autoimmune disorder in which the person produces antibodies against his or her own tissue
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infection, such as endocarditis, an inflammation in the heart, or syphilis ...
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an inherited disease such as sickle cell anemia or systemic lupus erythematosus ...
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Scleroderma, systemic lupus erythematosus and rheumatoid arthritis are three common examples of these diseases.
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Nephrotic Syndrome: Though not a disease in itself, this condition is often the result of other kidney disorders or more generalized diseases (such as diabetes mellitus and lupus erythematosus).
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Low blood pressure (hypotension)
Light-headedness, fainting
Lupus reaction
Headache
Gastrointestinal upset (such as nausea, heartburn, diarrhea)
Cough
Muscle cramps
Digitalis toxicity ...
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Secondary pulmonary hypertension may be due to congenital heart disease, pulmonary embolism, portal hypertension, collagen vascular disorders (such as lupus), sarcoidosis, and HIV infection.
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endometriosis (a condition where cells normally found in the womb grows in another part of the abdominal cavity)
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systemic lupus erythematosus
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epilepsy
inherited raised cholesterol levels ...
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