In the previous article, we tried to understand how SLE patients present and when to suspect it. Most of the time, the disease just keeps glaring at us and we still miss it because we do not think about it. Now once we have suspected SLE on the basis of clinical symptoms and confirmed it my serological tests, we need …
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May 10, 2011 # 7:24 pm # Autoimmune Disease, Rheumatology # One CommentWHAT IS LUPUS?
Lupus or systemic lupus erythrematosus (SLE) is an inflammatory connective tissue disease affecting multipe organs of the body. SLE is a type of autoimmune disease characterised by widespread activation of the immune system, with Tcell-Bcell interaction, auto-antibody generation, immune complex formation and deposition and deposition.
WHAT CAUSES LUPUS?
Research is still going on studying the causation for lupus. While …
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