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 ...

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“It was a poor decision to travel there, knowing how the sun affected my skin,” she admits. “I developed a horrible lupus rash all over my body—from the top of my scalp, all over my face, neck, and ...

Columnist Candace Semien praises the community's ability to survive and thrive without guilt while living with lupus.

DEAR DR. ROACH: I am a 77-year-old female. After experiencing hair thinning for over a year, I was diagnosed with incomplete lupus by a rheumatologist. My blood markers were high, but I don’t ...

By the time she was 16, Goldner was experiencing facial rashes, arthritis, migraines, high blood pressure, Raynaud's syndrome and stage IV kidney failure. When she learned she had lupus ...

CAR-T cell therapy, a marvel of bioengineering, takes a patient’s own immune cells and reprograms them to attack cells causing Lupus. First approved for treating leukemia in 2017, CAR-T cell therapy ...

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

Lupus vasculitis refers to inflammation that affects the blood vessels. What symptoms a person develops will depend on where in the body vasculitis occurs. Lupus vasculitis occurs when the immune ...

Atherosclerosis progression was more than twice as common in younger people with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) than in ...