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Paula Ritchie wasn’t dying, but under Canada’s new rules, she qualified for a medically assisted death. Was that kindness or cruelty?
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 ...
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.
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 ...
Inclusion criteria included: 1) diagnosis of cSLE at <18 years based on Systemic Lupus Erythematosus International Collaborating Clinics (SLICC) criteria; 2) enrollment within two years of cSLE ...