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Your board-certified dermatologist is trained to diagnose and treat conditions like lichen planus, which can affect your skin, hair, and nails Your dermatologist’s training includes recognizing the ...

Lichen planus is a disease that often causes a rash of small bumps on the skin. Some people develop other signs on their scalp, mouth, nails, or genitals. Your dermatologist knows how to diagnose this ...

Location: This eruption was on the glans penis. The lesions of lichen planus can occur anywhere on the body but favor the flexor wrists, trunk, medial thighs, shins, dorsal hands, and lower back.

Objective: To investigate the association between anti-phospholipid syndrome (APS) and the risk of newly diagnosed systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). Methods: We used 2003–2013 data derived from ...

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July 10, 2024 — Scientists have discovered a molecular defect that promotes the pathologic immune response in systemic lupus erythematosus (known as lupus) and show that reversing this defect ...

Patients with cutaneous lupus erythematosus (CLE), an autoimmune disease that causes skin inflammation, have a higher risk for atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD), or hardening of the ...

In a 2023 case series including eight individuals with both lupus and dermatomyositis, seven of them initially received a lupus diagnosis (mostly cutaneous lupus erythematosus) and later developed ...

National Library of Medicine. Systemic lupus erythematosus. Lupus Foundation of America. Complementary and alternative medicine for lupus. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Symptoms of lupus ...

Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a heterogeneous multisystem inflammatory disease with wide variability in clinical manifestations. Natural arising CD4+ regulatory T cells (Tregs) play a critical ...

Anemia occurs in 50% of people with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), the most ... with lupus who also have antiphospholipid antibody syndrome (APS) and antiphospholipid antibodies are more ...