4. How can we assess organ damage in lupus patients? The SLICC/ACR Damage Index, which captures 41 different clinical problems in 12 organ systems, is an instrument specifically developed to measure ...

Skin conditions associated with lupus can be significant and play a major role in both the diagnosis of lupus and its clinical course. Of the 11 criteria set by the American College of Rheumatology in ...

Existing guidelines for systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) predominantly focus on common and major organ involvements. An international taskforce involving experts from three SLE expert groups (ie, ...

African colleagues will be involved in the current update of SLICC/Lupus Foundation of America (LFA) Damage Index, as a start. Ensuring equal representation within international SLE research groups ...

Izmirly: We provided data using the SLICC definition for lupus in our original paper, and the rate was higher. That provided higher rates across the board for lupus.

Biogen is snagging some quick funds from Royalty Pharma to help push an investigational lupus antibody into late-stage development. Under the terms of the deal, Royalty will give Biogen $250 million ...

SLICC, on the other hand, started in the early 1990s by tracking approximately 1,400 newly diagnosed patients with lupus. It has now expanded globally, encompassing all six continents, to build a new ...

According to results of a retrospective, multicenter study published in Rheumatology, roughly 51% of patients with childhood-onset systemic lupus erythematosus (cSLE) sustain long-term damage.

A key lupus outcome measure is the assessment of damage, which is considered as a separate domain to disease activity and health related quality of life and has been shown to independently predict ...

Lupus is a disease in which the immune system attacks its owner’s cells and tissues, causing inflammation which results in organ damage. It can affect almost any part of the body, including skin, ...

Among the criteria listed by both the American College of Rheumatology (ACR-82) and the Systemic Lupus International Collaborating Clinics (SLICC-12) for the diagnosis of Systemic lupus erythematosus ...