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Lupus causes inflammation in your body ... You don’t have to have had acute pneumonitis to get chronic pneumonitis, or vice versa. Chronic pneumonitis may come on slowly enough that you don ...
Other forms of pulmonary impairment are lupus pneumonitis (acute or chronic), pulmonary hemorrhage, obliterative bronchiolitis with organized pneumonia, pulmonary vascular disease in the form of ...
We have reported an increased prevalence of biopsy-confirmed smooth muscle antibody-positive autoimmune liver disease that notably predated the disease onset in 9.8% of juvenile lupus patients ...
Among the 10 patients who had an acute abdominal disturbance due to lupus, vascular lesions of the bowel wall, nausea and vomiting were common. Fever and tachycardia occurred in most episodes.
2 Initially, EVALI cases demonstrated a heterogeneous collection of pneumonitis patterns that included acute eosinophilic pneumonia, organizing pneumonia, lipoid pneumonia, diffuse alveolar damage ...
This page lists all known medications that could potentially lead to 'Acute interstitial pneumonitis' as a side effect. It's important to note that mild side effects are quite common with medications.
The objective of immunosuppressive treatment for lupus nephritis is to abate ongoing damage to nephrons by active disease, and to prevent disease flares during the long-term maintenance phase ...
Recently approved by the US Food and Drug Administration, the drug, Benlysta, treats patients with acute lupus nephritis, a serious inflammation of the kidneys that can lead to end-stage kidney ...
Researchers studied 181 people with lupus and monitored their HCQ blood levels during routine visits. They discovered that people with HCQ levels in the therapeutic range (750-1200 ng/ml) were 66% ...