Paula Ritchie wasn’t dying, but under Canada’s new rules, she qualified for a medically assisted death. Was that kindness or cruelty?

Inclusion/Exclusion Criteria Inclusion Criteria 1. Age ≥ 60 years at time of enrollment 2. Normal OCT and VF assessment within 6 months of screening visit 3. Have established SLE (≥ 4 ACR criteria or ...

The SLICC criteria performed well with higher sensitivity but lower specificity and had a lower (but still a high) number of misclassified cases [74 vs. 62 for the 1997 revised ACR criteria and the ...

The patients each met the Systemic Lupus International Collaborating Clinics (SLICC) classification criteria for SLE 2. Lupus nephritis was confirmed by a kidney biopsy classified per the 2004 ISN/RPS ...

Since hypertension is a common item between the SLICC-FI and SCORE models, we performed a sensitivity analysis by excluding hypertension from the SLICC-FI. The quality of the models was assessed by ...

Background: Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is an autoimmune disease with variable clinical features and a complex physiopathology. In 2019, EULAR and ACR have jointly developed new classification ...

Methods We performed a prospective observational study including patients seen at Rheumatology department diagnosed with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLICC criteria) between 1990–2020.

Background: 2019 EULAR/ACR Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE) criteria were validated for classification from cases of established SLE compared to other diseases (sensitivity 0.96 (0.95-0.98); ...

Lupus enteritis was diagnosed and the case satisfied the 2019 EULAR-ACR criteria and SLICC criteria. She was treated with methylprednisolone, cyclophosphamide and hydroxychloroquine.

Inclusion/Exclusion Criteria Inclusion: Age 18–75 years old SLE by the ACR revised criteria or the SLICC criteria Of self-reported African Ancestry. The study will be limited to this group because ...

Objectives To assess the sensitivity and specificity of the 2019 EULAR/American College of Rheumatology (ACR) classification criteria for systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) in outpatients at an ...