the 1997 ACR revised criteria and the SLICC 2012 criteria counted each SLE manifestation equally with one exception — the SLICC criteria counted lupus nephritis by biopsy as a “stand alone ...

Complications from SLE, such as organ involvement, as well as age of onset and race, were used as weighting criteria. Renal involvement was given the highest weighting score, followed by seizures ...

Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is the most common type ... American College of Rheumatology lists 11 criteria for describing lupus. If a person meets four or more of the criteria, they ...