Lupus and gender
Types of lupus include:
Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) - SLE can affect any tissue or organ and can produce a wide range of symptoms. No two people with SLE will experience the same manifestations of the disease.
Lupus Overview
Systemic lupus erythematosus (lupus, SLE) is an autoimmune disease in which a person’s immune system attacks various organs or cells of the body causing damage and dysfunction.
Lupus symptoms
Lupus is a type of chronic inflammatory disease which occurs when the body's immune system turns against its own tissues and organs.
Lupus (Systemic Lupus Erythematosus): Diagnosis
It is estimated that 1.5 million people in the United States have lupus or one in one thousand. Ninety percent of them are women usually in child bearing years.
Lupus: The Skinny on Your Skin
Your skin is your body's largest organ. Sometimes, lupus can affect this big and delicate organ. One of the more common symptoms of lupus is a red rash that appears on the face.
Lupus: Introduction
Lupus is an ongoing or chronic disease that can have a widespread effect on the body, including the skin, joints, muscles and other organs.
Lupus anticoagulants
Definition
Lupus anticoagulants are antibodies against phospholipids (substances in the lining of cells) that prevent blood clotting in a test tube.
Lupus nephritis is a disease affecting the kidneys. Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a systemic autoimmune disorder which causes significant renal disease, primarily affecting the glomerulus.
Who gets Lupus Nephritis?
Lupus treatments
Several different types of medications, including corticosteroids, immunosuppressive drugs and antimalarials, have been used to manage some of the symptoms associated with lupus (systemic lupus erythematosus).
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Normally, the body's immune system makes proteins called antibodies that protect it from illness. The antibodies attach themselves to harmful bacteria and viruses called antigens, which can cause illness.
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Is lupus curable?
Lupus is not curable, but it is treatable. Your health care professional can prescribe medications to alleviate symptoms, such as pain and inflammation.
About lupus nephritis
Lupus nephritis is an inflammation of the kidneys caused by systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), a disease that affects the body's immune system.
How is lupus nephritis treated?
Treatment depends on the symptoms and test results. Medicines called corticosteroids can decrease swelling and inflammation by suppressing the immune system.
How is lupus diagnosed?
There is no single test for lupus. Because lupus affects different people in different ways, it can be hard to diagnose.
What is lupus?
Lupus (say: loop-us) is a disease of the immune system that can affect many parts of the body. Normally, antibodies produced by the immune system help protect the body against viruses, bacteria and other foreign substances.
Discoid lupus erythematosus
Discoid lupus erythematosus (DLE) is a mild form of lupus that only affects the skin. It causes symptoms such as:
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(l´ps), noninfectious chronic disease in which antibodies in an individual's immune system attack the body's own substances.
Lupus is a systemic autoimmune disease that has some genetic factors. It is also tied to environmental risk, which may determine whether people actually ever manifest the illness.
Lupus is a chronic inflammatory disease that can affect various parts of the body, especially skin, joints, blood, and kidneys. Although lupus can affect any part of the body, most people with the disease experience only a few symptoms.
Lupus is a life altering disease and one that can be both extremely painful and emotionally life distrupting to the person that is effected by Lupus.
Lupus miliaris disseminatus faciei is an eruption consisting of discrete yellow-brown to pink dome-shaped papules on the face and elsewhere that show a characteristic granulomatous histology.
Lupus nephritis is a kidney disorder that is a complication of systemic lupus erythematosus.
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Lupus nephritis occurs when antibodies (antinuclear antibody and others) and complement build up in the kidneys, causing inflammation. It often causes nephrotic syndrome (excessive protein excretion) and may progress rapidly to renal failure.
Lupus: Lupus (also called systemic lupus erythematosus or SLE) is a disorder of the immune system which normally functions to protect the body against invading infections and cancers.
Lupus is a chronic inflammatory autoimmune disease that can affect many parts of your body, including your skin, joints, kidneys, blood cells, heart and lungs.
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Certain heart drugs such as hydralazine, procainamide and beta-blockers, can cause similar symptoms, which disappear when usage of the drug is discontinued.
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Achy joints (arthralgia)
Fever over 100 degrees F
Swollen and painful joints (arthritis)
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How is lupus diagnosed?
Lupus is difficult to diagnose because of the vagueness of the symptoms each person might have. There is no single test that can diagnose lupus.
Discoid lupus erythematosus can be divided into localized, generalized and childhood discoid lupus erythematosus.
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Discoid lupus: A chronic inflammatory condition limited to the skin, caused by an autoimmune disease. An autoimmune disease occurs when the body's tissues are attacked by its own immune system.
Lupus (also called systemic lupus erythematosus) is a disorder of the immune system. Normally, the immune system protects the body against invading infections and cancers.
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Lupus, discoid on a child's face
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Lupus affects mostly young women. In the US it is more common among African-American, Hispanic, Asian, and Native American women than Caucasians. West Indian women and Chinese women also have higher rates of lupus.
Lupus, discoid -- view of lesions on the chest: This close-up picture of the neck clearly shows the typical rounded appearance of discoid lupus. The whitish appearance is caused by scaling.
Lupus is sometimes difficult to diagnose because there is no single set of symptoms. A physical exam and a blood test can detect a group of antibodies found in the blood of almost all people with lupus. Some other lab tests include: ...
Lupus and newborns
Neonatal lupus - Neonatal lupus is an autoimmune disease that occurs in about 2 percent of babies born to mothers with anti-Ro/SSA and/or anti-La/SSB antibodies.
Lupus is a prototype autoimmune disease with a wide array of clinical manifestations (rash, photosensitivity, oral ulcers, arthritis, pleuritis, pericarditis, kidney problems, seizures and psychosis, blood cell abnormalities).
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SLE (lupus) is an autoimmune disease. This means there is a problem with the body's normal immune system response.
Discoid lupus erythematosus - causes a skin rash that doesn't go away
Subacute cutaneous lupus erythematosus - causes skin sores on parts of the body exposed to sun
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Discoid lupus erythematosus (DLE) is characterized by the development of red, scaling patches or plaques that develop in areas of actinic exposure, and that can heal with central scarring.
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Neonatal lupus is a rare autoimmune disorder that is present at birth (congenital). Affected infants often develop a characteristic red rash or skin eruption.
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Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
A chronic, relapsing, inflammatory, and often febrile multisystemic disorder of connective tissue, characterized principally by involvement of the skin, joints, kidneys, and serosal membranes.
Systemic Lupus Erythematosis, Central Nervous System
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Definition of medical terminology for Systemic Lupus Erythematosis, Central Nervous System.
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Pyelonephritis is a kidney infection that occurs when bacteria from a urinary tract infection spreads to the kidney.
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Lupus Disease Symptoms
A brief history of the disease - Lupus is a disease known for over 2000 years. Hippocrates, who lived between 460 and 370, described the first consequences of this disease.
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Lupus is a chronic disease in which the body's immune system, instead of serving its normal protective function, forms antibodies and cells that attack healthy tissues and organs.
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