Clinical features, damage accrual, and survival in patients with familial systemic lupus erythematosus: data from a multi-ethnic, multinational Latin American lupus cohort.
Rosana Maris QuintanaGuillermo J Pons-EstelKaren RobertsMónica SacnúnRosa SerranoRomina NietoSilvana ContiViviana GervasoniLuis J CatoggioEnrique R SorianoMarina ScolnikMercedes A GarcíaAlejandro AlvarellosVerónica SauritGuillermo A BerbottoEmilia I SatoLilian T Lavras CostallatEduardo Ferreira Borba NetoEloisa S BonfaRicardo M XavierAna Carolina de Oliveira E Silva MontandonJosé Fernando Molina-RestrepoAntonio Iglesias-GamarraMarlene Guibert-ToledanoGil Alberto Reyes-LlerenaLoreto MassardoOscar J NeiraMario H CardielLeonor A Barile-FabrisMary-Carmen AmigoLuis H SilveiraIgnacio García De La TorreEduardo M Acevedo-VásquezManuel Francisco Ugarte-GilJosé Luis Alfaro-LozanoMaría Inés SegamiRosa Chacón-DíazMaría H Esteva-SpinettiJosé A Gomez-PuertaGraciela S AlarconBernardo A Pons-EstelPublished in: Lupus (2020)
Familial SLE is not characterized by a more severe form of disease than sporadic lupus. We also observed that familial SLE has a higher frequency of discoid lupus and neurologic manifestations and a lower frequency of pericarditis.