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 ...

The newer system, SLICC, published in Arthritis and Rheumatology, may also be a valuable tool, says Dr. Luk. The SLICC criteria include 17 signs and symptoms of lupus that doctors assess ...

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.

Using the SLICC Inception Cohort Study -- which includes patients from 31 centers in 11 countries in North America, Europe, and Asia -- The SLICC group recruited 1,722 patients between 2000 and ...

Criteria introduced by the Systemic Lupus International Collaborating Clinics in 2012 were found to be sensitive for diagnosing patients with systemic lupus erythematosus but not very specific ...

The SLICC criteria have 17 categories ... Access free, up-to-date clinical references on the epidemiology of Lupus at Healio. We aid in making confident point-of-care decisions.

(HealthDay)—Neither the American College of Rheumatology (ACR) nor the Systemic Lupus International Collaborating Clinics (SLICC) criteria distinguishes patients with subacute cutaneous lupus ...

SAN DIEGO — New classification criteria for systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), designed to more accurately identify patients for inclusion in clinical trials, demonstrate improved sensitivity ...

Among 1,826 patients with SLE enrolled in the Systemic Lupus International Collaborating Clinics (SLICC) network and followed for a mean of 7.4 years, 28 patients experienced 31 psychotic events ...

Ellen Ginzler, MD, MPH, and German Hernandez, MD, FASN, FACP, provide insight into the clinical presentation of patients with lupus nephritis, the progression of systemic lupus erythematosus to ...

Lupus can affect just about any part of your body, but medicine can help prevent and ease problems. There are also steps you can take on your own to avoid the effects of lupus on your heart, skin ...