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Independent SLE risk factors Fourteen (2.96%) children subsequently developed SLE during a mean follow-up of 6.1 years and within a mean time of 3.9 years.
Ianalumab prolonged the duration of safe platelet levels during and after treatment in patients with primary immune thrombocytopenia (ITP) previously treated with corticosteroids1,2 Patients treated ...
How would you approach an 82-year-old man with lymphopenia, thrombocytopenia, a highly positive antinuclear antibody (ANA) of 1:2560, and duodenal bleed?
Leukopenia, a decrease in the number of WBCs, is very common in active SLE and is found in 15-7/820% of patients. Thrombocytopenia, or a low platelet count, occurs in 25-7/835% of patients with SLE.
In all evaluable patients, the SLE Response Index (SRI)-4 response rates at week 12 were 50.0% (7/14), 61.5% (8/13) and 64.3% (9/14) in patients treated with orelabrutinib at 50mg, 80mg and 100mg ...
A common mechanism of thrombocytopenia in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is believed to be increased platelet clearance by autoantibodies. Autoantibodies to two platelet-specific antigens ...
For their study, the researchers identified 724 patients with SLE for inclusion. Among these patients, 26.2% were white, 18.8% were black, 36.9% were Asian or Pacific islander and 15.5% identified ...
Blacks and APIs were more likely to have lupus nephritis (20% and 52%, respectively, vs 13%-14% among other groups) and thrombocytopenia (24% and 39%, respectively, vs 17%-19% among other groups).
With a median follow-up of 42 months (range, 6-120 months), out of 15 patients continuing to receive HCQ, 14 patients (93.3%) had reached a CR and 1 patient had reached a PR. In long-term follow ...
Using FATIGUE-PRO, a measure recently developed to capture the patient experience of fatigue in SLE, greater improvements from baseline (nominal* p<0.05) were observed in people receiving DZP ...
Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is the most common form of lupus — it’s the type that 7 in 10 people with lupus have. It's what most people mean when they say "lupus." What causes SLE? Experts ...