Invasive aspergillosis in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus: a retrospective study on clinical characteristics and risk factors for mortality.

Conclusions High daily steroid dosing, recent pulse steroid therapy, azathioprine, rituximab, concurrent infections, and CMV viremia were mortality risk factors for IA in SLE. PMID: 30157715 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

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Source: Lupus - August 29, 2018 Category: Rheumatology Authors: Hung ML, Liao HT, Chen WS, Chen MH, Lai CC, Tsai CY, Chang DM Tags: Lupus Source Type: research