Members of the Systemic Lupus Erythematosus International Collaborating Clinics (SLICC) group along with experienced physicians providing lupus clinical care and research in Africa convened to ...

EULAR/ACR criteria was better at correctly identifying lupus cases compared to the ACR 1997 criteria and comparable in performance to the SLICC criteria. However, when only people who tested positive ...

Applied to a validation cohort, the 2019 EULAR/ACR criteria had a sensitivity of 96.1% and specificity of 93.4%, while the 1997 ACR criteria had 82.8% sensitivity and 93.4% and the SLICC criteria ...

Researchers identified a new cause for lupus. The patients in the study had a chemical imbalance that controlled how their T cells, a type of white blood cell that's part of the immune system ...

Lupus nephritis (LN) is a frequent complication of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), and one of the most severe organ manifestations, affecting up to 40% of patients. It constitutes an important ...

An extension trial revealed that long-term anifrolumab treatment improved health status and health-related quality of life in patients with moderate to severe systemic lupus erythematosus.