A comparative study on clinical and serological characteristics between patients with rhupus and those with systemic lupus erythematosus and rheumatoid arthritis.

CONCLUSION: Rhupus patients follow a particular clinical course, with full expression of both SLE and RA in terms of organ involvement, except for a lower prevalence of kidney affection. The new 2019 EULAR/ACR SLE criteria are not useful for differentiating SLE and rhupus patients. A new way of classifying autoimmune diseases is needed to identify overlapping clusters.
PMID: 32631205 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Lupus - July 5, 2020 Category: Rheumatology Authors: Frade-Sosa B, Narváez J, Salman-Monte TC, Castellanos-Moreira R, Ortiz-Santamaria V, Torrente-Segarra V, Castellvi I, Magallares B, Reina D, Minguez S, Sallés M, Manrique de Lara MG, Ordoñez S, Riera E, Schur PH, Gómez-Puerta JA Tags: Lupus Source Type: research