Tuberculosis remains a leading contributor to morbidity due to serious infections in Indian patients of SLE.
Rudrarpan ChatterjeeSarit Sekhar PattanaikDurga Prasanna MisraVikas AgarwalAble LawrenceShubhini A SarafAggarwal AmitaPublished in: Clinical rheumatology (2023)
Serious infections remain a major cause of mortality and damage accrual in SLE and higher disease activity, gastrointestinal involvement, hypoalbuminemia, current steroid dose, and cumulative steroid dose are the risk factors for it.
Keyphrases
- disease activity
- systemic lupus erythematosus
- rheumatoid arthritis
- rheumatoid arthritis patients
- ankylosing spondylitis
- juvenile idiopathic arthritis
- ejection fraction
- newly diagnosed
- end stage renal disease
- mycobacterium tuberculosis
- emergency department
- prognostic factors
- risk factors
- patient reported outcomes
- hepatitis c virus
- human immunodeficiency virus