Neonatal lupus is not true lupus. It is a rare condition associated with anti-SSA/Ro and/or anti-SSB/La antibodies from the mother that affect the fetus. At birth, the baby may have a skin rash, liver ...

The baby was diagnosed with neonatal lupus erythematosus (NLE). A skin biopsy taken from her back revealed interface dermatitis with dyskeratosis and increased dermal mucin. Echocardiogram and ECG ...

Congenital heart block, sometimes referred to as cardiac neonatal lupus, is a rare but potentially life-threatening condition that affects babies born to mothers with specific autoantibodies - called ...

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The importance of diagnosing systemic lupus erythematosus and its variants early in the course of disease cannot be overstressed. Medscape's Helen Fosam, PhD, Editorial Director of Rheumatology, ...

Systemic Lupus Erythematosus is one of the most complex autoimmune diseases seen in modern medicine, affecting multiple organs and presenting differently from one patient to another. Often referred to ...

Neonatal lupus erythematosus (NLE) was likely first reported in 1928 in two siblings with congenital heart block (CHB) born to a mother with Sjogren's syndrome (Aylward, 1928). In 1954, McCuistion and ...