Pulmonary Manifestations of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Among Adults in Aseer Region, Saudi Arabia.
Nouf A AlhammadiHanan Saeed AlqahtaniSyed Esam MahmoodAbdulrahman Arif AlshahraniAbdullaziz Motlaq A AlahmariAbdullah Rashid Safer AlshahraniAbdullah Saeed A BadawiAli Mohammed Ali AlqahtaniAbdullah Thabet A AlsalemMohammed Saeed M Alsultan AlqahtaniMohammed Ali GazzanPublished in: International journal of general medicine (2024)
The study found that 21.9% of SLE patients experience chest involvement, with varying degrees of pulmonary symptoms. Factors such as chronic kidney disease, hypertension, antiphospholipid antibodies, Anti-CCP positivity, and seropositivity for Anti-dsDNA were found to be significant associations with lung involvement, contributing to our understanding of SLE.