ReviewNature reviews. Rheumatology2013
Diagnostic criteria for systemic lupus erythematosus: has the time come?
Review in Nature reviews. Rheumatology, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 63 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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63 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Prevalence of neuropsychiatric disorders in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus in Pakistan: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023Pooled it
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- Characterisation of Patients with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus in Malta: A Population Based Cohort Cross-Sectional Study.BioMed research international · 2018Trial
- Comparative diagnostic performance of ACR 1997, SLICC 2012, and EULAR/ACR 2019 criteria in childhood-onset systemic lupus erythematosus: A retrospective study from a tertiary care centre in south India.Rheumatology and immunology research · 2026Article
- A presentation of systemic lupus erythematosus manifesting as abdominal pain: a case report.Journal of medical case reports · 2025Article
- Lupus Enteritis and Rare Severe Manifestations of Lupus: Why Classification Criteria should not be used for Diagnosis.Mediterranean journal of rheumatology · 2025Article
- Exploring Gut Microbiota in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus: Insights and Biomarker Discovery Potential.Clinical reviews in allergy & immunology · 2025Review
- Application of machine learning in assessing disease activity in SLE.Lupus science & medicine · 2025Article
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- Juvenile lupus-like with negative serology: a clinical dilemma and diagnostic challenge.Journal of rheumatic diseases · 2025Article
- Aberrant B cell responses as drivers of autoantibody generation and epitope diversification in SLE pathogenesis.Frontiers in immunology · 2025Review
- Efferocytosis in Homeostasis.Advances in experimental medicine and biology · 2025Review
- The Multiple Faces of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus: Pearls and Pitfalls for Diagnosis.Mediterranean journal of rheumatology · 2024Review
- Epidemiology of SLE in Italy: an observational study using a primary care database.Lupus science & medicine · 2024Observational
- Cytotoxic Tph subset with low B-cell helper functions and its involvement in systemic lupus erythematosus.Communications biology · 2024Article
- Novel multiclass classification machine learning approach for the early-stage classification of systemic autoimmune rheumatic diseases.Lupus science & medicine · 2024Article
- A data-driven approach to discover and quantify systemic lupus erythematosus etiological heterogeneity from electronic health records.AMIA ... Annual Symposium proceedings. AMIA Symposium · 2024Article
- Rehabilitation in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus With Class 4 Lupus Nephritis Secondary to Pneumonia: A Case Report.Cureus · 2023Article
- Burden of disease and real-world treatment patterns of patients with systemic lupus erythematosus in the Australian OPAL dataset.Clinical rheumatology · 2023Article
- Thrombocytopenia in Patients with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus.European journal of rheumatology · 2023Article
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Abstract
Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a multiorgan disease with protean manifestations. Because SLE is uncommon and heterogeneous, its diagnosis can pose a considerable challenge, especially for clinicians with limited expertise of the disease. This is particularly true at the early stages of SLE, when an inadequate number of features to secure the diagnosis might be present, and for patients presenting with uncommon features, which can nonetheless be severe and require prompt treatment. Furthermore, the suboptimal performance of immunological testing in patients referred for possible SLE has been highlighted. As a result, SLE remains largely a clinical diagnosis that is made after excluding alternative diagnoses. Diagnostic criteria can expedite diagnosis and treatment, but are not available for SLE. Thus, SLE classification criteria are often used, but strict adherence to these criteria could delay diagnosis. Therefore, while eagerly awaiting diagnostic criteria for this disease, we propose interim potential solutions to facilitate its diagnosis.
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