A lupus diagnosis is based on clinical symptoms (past and present), a family history (the medical history of close family members such as your grandparents, parents, siblings, aunts, uncles, cousins) ...

Many different lab tests are used to find changes in your body that can happen with lupus. The results of each test help your doctor get a fuller picture of your health. Because lab tests alone can’t ...

Margrit Wiesendanger, MD, PhD, explores lupus symptoms, diagnosis challenges, and the importance of early detection to prevent inflammation-related damage. Wiesendanger is a clinical rheumatologist ...

Early diagnosis of lupus is important, so that treatment to prevent irreversible organ damage can begin. In this national registry study, lupus diagnosis was preceded by years of markedly increased ...

WASHINGTON -- Lupus nephritis (LN) diagnosis could improve greatly if early results with a multimarker urine test are confirmed in larger studies, research presented here suggested. Measurement of 12 ...

A photo of Beth Smith, who has lupus and and is an ambassador for Lupus UK. She is also a beauty blogger - Beth Does Beauty. New research by Swansea University and Cambridge University has revealed ...

The average diagnostic delay - time from first lupus symptoms to lupus diagnosis - among study participants was 7.5 years, with one patient having to wait 40 years. Participants diagnosed in more ...

Improvement in results on a noninvasive urinary biomarker panel at 3 months among patients with lupus nephritis predicted a clinical response at 1 year. A noninvasive urinary biomarker panel predicts ...

Two variants of an autoimmune disease that affects thousands but is hard to diagnose are relatively common among black Africans, research shows. The findings, relating to systemic lupus erythematosus, ...