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Background/Purpose Diagnosis of Lupus Nephritis (LN) is currently based on laboratory tests and renal histopathology. The role of histopathological features in determining long term outcomes is ...
Guillermo Ruiz-Irastorza, Diana Paredes-Ruiz, Fernando Arizpe et al. Hydroxychloroquine in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus: how much is enough? Lupus Sci Med 2025;12:e001254. doi: ...
Background Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) often mimics the symptoms of other diseases, and the interval between symptom onset and diagnosis remains long in these patients. The aim of this study is ...
Background Around 963 A.D., Bishop Eraclius (Liège, Belgium) wrote an affidavit stating, ‘I … was nearly taken to death by the disease called Lupus.’ On the seventh night of praying at Saint Martin’s ...
Objectives Adverse pregnancy outcomes (APOs) are more common among women with SLE compared to the general population and the underlying immunopathological mechanisms are largely unknown. The type I ...
Background Two Phase 2 studies investigating once-daily cenerimod, a selective sphingosine 1-phosphate 1 receptor modulator, in adults with SLE were recently completed: CARE (NCT03742037) and ...
Background Tyrosine kinase 2 (TYK2) mediates signaling of key cytokines (eg, Type 1 IFNs, IL-23, and IL-12) involved in lupus pathogenesis. Deucravacitinib is a first-in-class, oral, selective, ...
Objective To investigate changes in peripheral B cells, B-cell subsets and biomarkers in NOBILITY. Methods In the randomized Phase II NOBILITY trial (NCT02550652), patients with lupus nephritis ...
Background The molecular and cellular heterogeneity of human Lupus Nephritis (LN) at the kidney tissue level makes it challenging to identify key disease drivers and therapeutic targets. Single-cell ...
Background Cutaneous lupus erythematous (CLE) is amanifestation of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) that may have no systemic symptoms. SLE is known to affect a heterogeneous group of patients, and ...
Bone involvement is a common cause of morbidity and disability in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). 1 This is both a consequence of the disease itself and treatments, including steroids. 2 As ...