Rheumatology

Discoid lupus

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How would you approach management of a young male patient with discoid lupus who has had minimal response to hydroxychloroquine (and subtherapeutic whole blood levels) who continues to use tobacco products?

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What is your approach to severe discoid lupus refractory to conventional topical and systemic therapies?

(Refractory to mycophenolate, azathioprine, and methotrexate. UpToDate suggests thalidomide or IVIG with mixed efficacy, while there are some case rep...

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Is it safe to give radiation to a breast cancer patient with discoid lupus?

The patient has notable lip lesions from her discoid lupus erythematosus

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What is your approach to ongoing assessment and medication tapering in well controlled discoid lupus without systemic features?

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Papers discussed in this category

Best practice & research. Clinical rheumatology, 2013-06

Cutaneous lupus erythematosus: diagnosis and treatment.

Dermatol Ther, 2016 Apr 12

Review of treatment for discoid lupus erythematosus.

Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology, 2011-05

Quality of life in cutaneous lupus erythematosus.

Lupus, 2016 May 27

Cutaneous lupus erythematosus and systemic lupus erythematosus are associated with clinically significant cardiovascular risk: a Danish nationwide cohort study.

Clin Exp Rheumatol, 2013 Aug 02

Pain and pruritus in cutaneous lupus: their association with dermatologic quality of life and disease activity.

J Rheumatol, 2022 Aug 01

Timing and Predictors of Incident Cardiovascular Disease in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus: Risk Occurs Early and Highlights Racial Disparities.

Autoimmunity reviews, 2009-02

The risk of ultraviolet radiation exposure from indoor lamps in lupus erythematosus.

Arthritis and rheumatism, 2013-07

Vitamin D in systemic lupus erythematosus: modest association with disease activity and the urine protein-to-creatinine ratio.

Arthritis care & research, 2016 Jan

Vitamin D Supplementation in Adolescents and Young Adults With Juvenile Systemic Lupus Erythematosus for Improvement in Disease Activity and Fatigue Scores: A Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Trial.

Lupus, 2014 Feb 06

Vitamin D and cutaneous lupus erythematosus: effect of vitamin D replacement on disease severity.

Annals of the rheumatic diseases, 2023 Oct 12

EULAR recommendations for the management of systemic lupus erythematosus: 2023 update.

Arthritis care & research, 2023 Nov 28

Reference Range of Hydroxychloroquine Blood Levels That Can Reduce Odds of Active Lupus and Prevent Flares.

Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology, 2015 Jan 30

Influence of smoking on the efficacy of antimalarials in cutaneous lupus: a meta-analysis of the literature.

Journal of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology : JEADV, 2016 Dec 20

S2k guideline for treatment of cutaneous lupus erythematosus - guided by the European Dermatology Forum (EDF) in cooperation with the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology (EADV).

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