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What is your approach to differentiating between drug induced lupus versus elderly onset SLE?

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Rheumatology · Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USUHS)

Close to 50% of SLE patients are anti-histone positive. In a scenario like this, it is not helpful. This is SLE until proven otherwise.

Regarding elderly onset SLE vs drug induced lupus, I evaluate and distinguish them similar to how I do in younger patients.

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