Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE)
Description | Clinical presentation: The diagnosis lupus can be given with a 98 % specificity and a 97 % sensitivity, if there are 4 or more of the following ACR-criteria either concurrently or within any period of time during the course of illness. ACR-criteria (1982)/classification criteria
Basic evaluations: ESR, CRP, blood count, urine status, creatinine-clearance, cystatin C Immunology: ANA (90-100 %), RF, anti-CCP, anti-ds-DNA (activity parameters), ENA (Sm 10-40 %, SS-A 25-60 %, SS-B 10-35 %, U1-RNP 30-40 %, further antibodies), cardiolipin antibodies (30-50 %) (Phospholipid antibodies), C3, C4, immune complexes. SLE special types:
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- Salpingitis
- Sandhoff M. (= GM2-gangliosidosis variant O)
- Sarcoidosis
- Schizophrenia
- Schmidt’s syndrome
- Schönlein-Henoch-purpura (Syn: Purpura anaphylactoides)
- Scleritis
- Scleroderma
- Seminoma
- Septicemia
- Sexually transmitted diseases
- Sharp syndrome
- SIADH
- Sickle cell anemia
- Sinusitis
- Sjögren syndrome
- Sneddon syndrome
- Spasms / Cramps
- Spherocytic anemia
- Spherocytosis, hereditary
- Spina bifida
- Splenomegaly
- Sprue (Gluten sensitive enteropathy, Celiac’s disease)
- Sterility/Infertility, female
- Sterility/Infertility, male
- Stiff person syndrome
- Stiff-person spectrum disorders
- Still’s syndrome
- Stomach cancer
- Stomatitis aphthosa or herpetica