A new study has found that women with systemic lupus erythematosus who have problems with memory and thinking (mild cognitive impairment, or MCI) exhibit morphological brain changes, which may serve ...

The baby was diagnosed with neonatal lupus erythematosus (NLE). A skin biopsy taken from her back revealed interface dermatitis with dyskeratosis and increased dermal mucin. Echocardiogram and ECG ...

Therapeutic Strategy: Treat to Target? Over the past several years the principle of 'treating to target' has become well established for rheumatoid arthritis, [35] and is being investigated for other ...

Neonatal lupus erythematosus (NLE) is a rare disorder caused by the transplacental passage of maternal autoantibodies. Most mothers are healthy when they give birth to their baby, but some mothers ...

Lupus or systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is an autoimmune disorder that can involve a few or all organs. That includes the skin as well. Most common and most severe is that of the butterfly rash, ...

Early use of mycophenolate mofetil (MMF), a drug used to dampen the immune system in organ transplant recipients, may reduce the risk for severe flares in patients with newly diagnosed systemic lupus ...

In 1978, a team of Harvard Medical School researchers examined whether people with lupus responded to the influenza vaccine differently from the way a group of “normal” control subjects did. They ...