ArticleClinical rheumatology2018
Clinical characteristics and risk factors of infections in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus.
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- Risk factors for infections in systemic lupus erythematosus: a meta-analysis.Immunologic research · 2025Pooled it
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- Association Between Mycophenolate Mofetil Use and Subsequent Infections Among Hospitalized Patients with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus: A Nested Case-Control Study.Rheumatology and therapy · 2023Article
- T lymphocyte subsets and immunoglobulin and complement levels are associated with the infection status of patients with antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody-associated vasculitis.Clinical and experimental medicine · 2023Article
- Dysregulation of immunity in COVID-19 and SLE.Inflammopharmacology · 2022Review
- Rapid and precise diagnosis of pneumonia coinfected by Pneumocystis jirovecii and Aspergillus fumigatus assisted by next-generation sequencing in a patient with systemic lupus erythematosus: a case report.Annals of clinical microbiology and antimicrobials · 2021Article
- Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus-2 Infection and Autoimmunity 1 Year Later: The Era of Vaccines.Frontiers in immunology · 2021Review
- Infection-related hospitalization after intensive immunosuppressive therapy among lupus nephritis and ANCA glomerulonephritis patients.Renal failure · 2020Article
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- Associated clinical factors for serious infections in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus.Scientific reports · 2019Article
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Abstract
To investigate the clinical characteristics of infection in SLE patients and analyze the risk factors of infection. A retrospective analysis method was used and the data were collected from 173 case times of 142 hospitalized patients. We found the incidence rate of infections in SLE was 50.7%. The most common infection sites were lungs, followed by upper respiratory tracts and urinary tracts. The most common pathogens were bacteria, followed by fungi. The infection-associated risk factors were duration of hospitalization, lupus activity state, the use of high-dose corticosteroids and immunosuppressive agents, the low serum level of complements 3 and 4 (C3 and C4), fever, the high level of erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR) and C-reactive protein (CRP), the abnormality of white blood cell (< 4 × 10
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