Fevers in Adult Lupus Patients

Variability in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) disease manifestations is well recognized. Lupus disease activity can range from mild to severe. Fever is a common manifestation of SLE and occurs in 36%–86% of patients. In the Modified Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Disease Activity Index (M-SLEDAI),...

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Autores principales: Timlin, Homa, Syed, Abrahim, Haque, Uzma, Adler, Brittany, Law, Genevieve, Machireddy, Kirthi, Manno, Rebecca
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2018
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Internal Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5866120/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29581911
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.2098
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author Timlin, Homa
Syed, Abrahim
Haque, Uzma
Adler, Brittany
Law, Genevieve
Machireddy, Kirthi
Manno, Rebecca
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description Variability in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) disease manifestations is well recognized. Lupus disease activity can range from mild to severe. Fever is a common manifestation of SLE and occurs in 36%–86% of patients. In the Modified Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Disease Activity Index (M-SLEDAI), fever is taken into account as disease activity scoring. Assessment of lupus patients with fever is an important diagnostic challenge, since the initial clinical presentation of a patient with lupus is very similar to the acute febrile phase of an infection. The attribution of fever to SLE holds only after other causes are excluded.
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spelling pubmed-58661202018-03-26 Fevers in Adult Lupus Patients Timlin, Homa Syed, Abrahim Haque, Uzma Adler, Brittany Law, Genevieve Machireddy, Kirthi Manno, Rebecca Cureus Internal Medicine Variability in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) disease manifestations is well recognized. Lupus disease activity can range from mild to severe. Fever is a common manifestation of SLE and occurs in 36%–86% of patients. In the Modified Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Disease Activity Index (M-SLEDAI), fever is taken into account as disease activity scoring. Assessment of lupus patients with fever is an important diagnostic challenge, since the initial clinical presentation of a patient with lupus is very similar to the acute febrile phase of an infection. The attribution of fever to SLE holds only after other causes are excluded. Cureus 2018-01-22 /pmc/articles/PMC5866120/ /pubmed/29581911 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.2098 Text en Copyright © 2018, Timlin et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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