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Diabetol Int
January 2025
Department of Endocrinology and Diabetes, NTT Medical Center Tokyo, 141-86255-9-22 Higashi-Gotanda, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo Japan.
A 73-year-old Japanese woman was admitted to our hospital with anorexia, weight loss, and fever. A few weeks prior to admission, she became aware of anorexia. She was leukopenic, complement-depleted, and positive for antinuclear antibodies and anti-double stranded DNA antibodies.
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June 2025
Rheumatology Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Science, Tehran, Iran.
Iron is a crucial element for living organism in terms of oxygen transport, hematopoiesis, enzymatic activity, mitochondrial respiratory chain function and also immune system function. The human being has evolved a mechanism to regulate body iron. In some rheumatic diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis (RA), systemic lupus erythematous (SLE), systemic sclerosis (SSc), ankylosing spondylitis (AS), and gout, this balanced iron regulation is impaired.
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December 2024
Dermatology, Temple University Hospital, Philadelphia, USA.
Leprosy is an uncommon chronic mycobacterial infection in the United States caused by . There are two major forms of the infection, lepromatous leprosy and tuberculoid leprosy, with borderline forms of each. Leprosy is even more uncommon in the Northeastern United States and can present with various symptoms and skin findings, including erythematous or hypopigmented patches or plaques with accompanying hypoesthesia or anesthesia, anhidrosis, or alopecia.
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December 2024
Department of Translational Research, College of Osteopathic Medicine of the Pacific, Western University of Health Sciences, Pomona, California 91766 USA.
Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE) is a chronic illness that can affect many tissues through the production of autoantibodies. A definite etiology has not been conclusively established, but current research points to the influences which include genetic, hormonal and environmental factors. SLE is difficult to treat due to its multifactorial pathogenesis and heterogeneity in clinical manifestations.
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January 2025
Department of Dermatology and Venereology, Medical University of Lodz, pl. Hallera 1, 90-647 Lodz, Poland.
Senear-Usher syndrome, or pemphigus erythematosus (PE), is a rare autoimmune disorder characterized by the coexistence of features from both lupus erythematosus (LE) and pemphigus foliaceus (PF). We describe a 41-year-old patient initially diagnosed with cutaneous and then systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), who after a few years developed new skin lesions: erythematous and erosive eruptions partially covered by crusts located on the trunk and flaccid blisters on the extremities. Direct immunofluorescence of perilesional skin revealed deposits of IgG in the intercellular space of the epidermis and granular deposits of C3 at the dermo-epidermal junction.
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