4 Department of Preventive Medicine, Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, USA Background/objective Patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) are at increased risk for adverse ...

Objective To evaluate the treatment patterns, medication adherence, concomitant corticosteroid use, factors influencing sequence of therapies (SOTs), healthcare resource utilisation (HCRU) and ...

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Objective To determine if serum interferon (IFN)-α levels at the time of a lupus nephritis (LN) flare are associated with renal outcomes. Methods Patients with an LN flare who had a preflare estimated ...

Objective Epstein–Barr virus (EBV) has for long been associated with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). In this study, we investigated the levels of latent and lytic antigen EBV-specific T-cells and ...

Objective The current study aims to elucidate the critical function of hepatocyte nuclear factor 1-beta (HNF1-β) in lupus nephritis (LN) by investigating its modulation of the ...

Objectives Evaluation of disease activity in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) nephritis is a challenge, and repeated renal biopsies are usually needed in order to confirm a suspicion of flare. In a ...

Objectives Antiphospholipid syndrome (APS) is characterised by the presence of antiphospholipid antibodies (aPLs) and clinical outcomes of thrombosis and/or obstetric ...

1 Center of Expertise for Lupus, Vasculitis and Complement-mediated Systemic disease (LuVaCs), Dept. of Nephrology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands 2 Dept. of Nephrology, ...

1 Dept. of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Amsterdam Rheumatology and immunology Center, Amsterdam institute for Infection and Immunity, Amsterdam University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The ...

1 Dept. of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Karolinska University Hospital, Solna, Stockholm, Sweden 2 Dept. of Neuroradiology, Karolinska University ...