A lupus flare or flare-up happens when your immune system mistakenly attacks healthy tissue in your body, causing inflammation, pain, and damage.

More than one-third of patients with systemic lupus erythematosus experience a flare after starting dialysis for end-stage renal disease, according to data published in Arthritis Care &amp ...

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Mouth sores can be a sign of a coming lupus flare up, or a symptom of an ongoing one. Let's look at why and what you can do: ...

Extrarenal lupus flares continue to occur in more than one-third of patients with end-stage kidney disease (ESKD) receiving renal replacement therapy (RRT), investigators report. Flare risk is ...

However, for the vast majority of lupus flares the initial treatment has to be systemic glucocorticoids. For most manifestations, prednisone at 0.25–0.5 mg/kg body weight (or equivalent) is ...

For example, studies of flares among people with lupus receiving the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine have found that between zero and 13% of patients experienced a flare, but that flares tended ...

Patients whose autoimmune disorders such as lupus were initially dismissed by doctors as psychosomatic show long-lasting adverse impacts on their mental health and trust in medicine, according to ...

In this podcast episode, hear about lupus remission and inactive lupus and what it means for lupus warriors.