A new study finds that the Systemic Lupus International Collaborating Clinics (SLICC) frailty index (FI) not only serves as a measure to predict mortality, it can also predict the degree of damage ...

Assessing chronic organ damage in people with lupus is one of the key ways both clinicians and researchers evaluate individuals’ health and the severity of the disease. While the current tool used to ...

At the time we did this, which was before 2012 when the Systemic Lupus Collaborating Clinics (SLICC) classification criteria came around, we used the 1997 revised [American College of Rheumatology ...

(5) Patients are diagnosed with lupus when they have 4 of the 11 total signs or symptoms, says Dr. Luk. The newer system, SLICC, published in Arthritis and Rheumatology, may also be a valuable ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The EULAR/American College of Rheumatology 2019 classification criteria for systemic lupus erythematosus did ...

The SLICC criteria have 17 categories (11 clinical ... or must have biopsy-proven lupus nephritis (LN) and be seropositive for ANAs or anti-dsDNA antibodies (see Pathogenesis and Pathophysiology ...

May is Lupus Awareness Month and Toni Braxton is using the opportunity to speak out about living with this chronic autoimmune disease. In an interview with CBS News Wednesday, the Grammy-winning ...

Lupus is an autoimmune disease; the body’s immune system attacks healthy cells leading to pain, fever, rashes, organ damage and other symptoms. The Lupus Foundation of America estimates more ...

Fatigue, pain, swelling, rashes and hair loss are just some of the symptoms that affect people with lupus, a chronic autoimmune disease in which the immune system attacks healthy tissue.

Lupus raises your chances of heart disease and stroke. This is probably due to the long-term inflammation that comes with lupus. Some lupus medicines, such as steroids, may also increase the risk ...

Doctors once advised women with lupus not to get pregnant due to the potential risks to mother and baby. But while pregnancy with lupus still carries its own set of risks, most women with lupus ...