• 대한수의학회지
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• 제61권1호
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• pp.1.1-1.5
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• 2021

A 5-year-old neutered female Dachshund dog presented with a 3-month history of hyperthermia, skin lesions, and shifting lameness. Based on physical examination, blood tests, urinalysis, and radiographs, the dog was diagnosed with systemic lupus erythematosus. Clinical signs improved after administration of prednisolone and cyclosporine but relapsed after the prednisolone was reduced due to side effects. Oral levamisole was commenced and the other immunosuppressants were tapered over a period of 2 months and then stopped. Levamisole was retained as the sole therapy for an additional 2 months. Six months after discontinuation of all treatment, the patient remained in remission.

• Clinics in Shoulder and Elbow
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• 제24권3호
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• pp.178-182
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• 2021

A 50-year-old woman who had been previously diagnosed with systemic lupus erythematosus consulted our clinic for pain and weakness in her right shoulder. On examination, she had an atrophied deltoid muscle, a painful right shoulder on movement, and a tender mass in the deltoid area. The patient was diagnosed with corticosteroid-induced deltoid myopathy, shoulder pain, and loss of range of motion that did not resolve with conservative treatment. We decided to perform reverse shoulder arthroplasty. No complications were observed at the last follow-up visit at 3 years postoperative. Unlike deltoid insufficiency that results from axillary nerve injury, deltoid myopathy due to corticosteroid use contains intact fibers,. Therefore, we increased the effectivity of the remaining deltoid fibers by extending the moment arm of the anterior fibers using reverse shoulder arthroplasty and achieved reliable improvements in clinical symptoms and function without increasing the risk of dislocation.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제45권4호
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• pp.594-602
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• 2023

Internet of things (IoT) is commonly employed to detect different kinds of diseases in the health sector. Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is an autoimmune illness that occurs when the body's immune system attacks its own connective tissues and organs. Because of the complicated interconnections between illness trigger exposure levels across time, humans have trouble predicting SLE symptom severity levels. An effective automated machine learning model that intakes IoT data was created to forecast SLE symptoms to solve this issue. IoT has several advantages in the healthcare industry, including interoperability, information exchange, machine-to-machine networking, and data transmission. An SLE symptom-predicting machine learning model was designed by integrating the hybrid marine predator algorithm and atom search optimization with an artificial neural network. The network is trained by the Gene Expression Omnibus dataset as input, and the patients' data are used as input to predict symptoms. The experimental results demonstrate that the proposed model's accuracy is higher than state-of-the-art prediction models at approximately 99.70%.

• Childhood Kidney Diseases
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• 제3권1호
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• pp.80-87
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• 1999

목 적 : 루프스 신염은 전신성 홍반성 낭창(systemiclupuserythematosus,SLE)의 가장 심각한 합병증 가운데 하나이지만, 소아 연령에서 루프스 신염에 대한 국내 연구는 미약한 실정이다. 본 연구는 루프스 신염 환자를 대상으로 빈도, 임상상, 치료반응, 예후 등에 대한 기초 조사를 실시하여 향후 전국 규모의 다기관 연구를 위한 기반 자료로 사용하기 위함이다. 방 법 : 1986년부터 1997년 11년 동안 서울대학교 어린이병원 소아과에 입원한 SLE환아 53례 중 신생검상 루프스 신염이 확인된 46례를 대상으로 후향적 의무기록 고찰을 시행하였다. 결 과 : 1) 전체 남녀비는 1:2.5, 루프스 신염의 진단 당시 정중연령은 12.8세(2세-15세 8개월)이었다. 2) ARA 분류 기준 중 형광항핵항체($85.7\%$), 항ds-DNA항체($78.0\%$), 나비모양 홍반($60.8\%$) 등이 가장 빈번히 관찰되었으며, 기타 검사 소견중에서는 C3의 감소($88.9\%$)가 흔하였다. 3) 혈뇨($87.0\%$)는 가장 흔한 신장 증상이었고, 신생검상 41례에서 WHO class IV 병변이 확인되었다. 4) Prednisolone, azathioprine, 경구 또는 정맥 cyclophosphamide 등을 단독 또는 병합치료 결과 대부분 환자에서 질환 활성도가 정상 혹은 중증도 이하로 조절되었으며, 치료 종류에 따른 반응도의 차이는 관찰할 수 없었다. 5) 감염은 치료 경과중 가장 흔한 합병증이었으며, 특히 Varicella-Zoster virus와 candida 감염증이 흔하였다. 결 론 : SLE 환아중 루프스 신염의 빈도는 $87.0\%$이었고, 그중 $89.1\%$가 장기적 예후가 불량한 WHO class IV 로 확인되었다. 따라서 신염 초기의 적극적인 면역억제제 사용이 장기적 예후 향상에 도움을 주리라 사료되며, 이에 대한 장기간의 전향적-비교연구를 위하여 다기관 공동연구가 절실히 필요하다.

• Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases
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• 제50권6호
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• pp.732-739
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• 2001

교원성 질환에 병발하여 나타나는 간질성 폐렴은 여러가지가있으며, 이 중 비특이성 간질성 폐렴은 통상성 간질성 폐렴과는 달리, 예후가 좋고 스테로이드에 반응이 좋은 질병이다. 저자들은 전신성 홍반성 낭창에 동반된 비특이성 간질성 폐렴환자를 경험하고, 스테로이드를 써서 치료 후 외래에서 추적 관찰하는 1예가 있었기에 문헌 고찰과 함께 보고하는 바이다.

• 근관절건강학회지
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• 제7권1호
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• pp.131-147
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• 2000

Almost all patients with rheumatic disease experience fatigue. The fatigue affects the patient's life extensively at home and at work, therefore it is necessary to investigate the nature of the fatigue which the patients perceive. The purpose of this study is to explore the nature and pattern of fatigue of the patients with rheumatic diseases. Rheumatoid arthritis is typical disease for its joint involvement which leads to deformity. Whereas lupus is a characteristic systemic autoimmune disease and the fibromyalgia is characterized by the general bodyache and multiple local tenderness. The prevalence of these diseases and the fatigue was known to be higher in women than men. Therefore the subjects were woman patient diagnosed as rheumatoid arthritis, lupus or fibromyalgia, and they were recruited from the H-Rheumatic Disease Hospital. The two instruments, the Multidimensional Assessment of Fatigue by Belza(1995) and the Piper Fatigue Scale by Piper, et al(1995) were used to explore the nature and pattern of self-reported fatigue. In total, the data from 157 patients were analysed by the SPSS-PC program for statistical analysis. The results were as follows: 1. Most patients with rheumatic disease experienced fatigue and the degree of fatigue was at the middle range by the scores of the two instruments. 2. The degree of fatigue of the patients with fibromyalgia was the highest and the next was that of the patients with lupus and the fatigue of the patients with rheumatoid arthritis. But there were no statistically significant differences among the patients with three rheumatic diseases, except the subcategory, the meaning of fatigue of the Piper Fatigue Scale. 3. Even when the period of the symptom and pain were covariated, there were no statistically significant differences among patients with three rheumatic diseases. The fatigue of the patients with lupus and fibromyalgia is rarely investigated in Korea and this study can be the base for the further understanding of the patients with rheumatic diseases. Therefore repeated studies are required to identify the factors to affect the fatigue and to understanding the nature of the diseases and to develop the nursing interventions to alleviate the fatigue.

• Physical Therapy Rehabilitation Science
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• 제5권2호
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• pp.106-112
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• 2016

Objective: This study was conducted to investigate the effects of resistant exercise on the gait performance of a patient with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) patient. Design: A case study. Methods: A 30-year-old male adult who had been diagnosed with systemic lupus erythmatosus (SLE) in April 2013, right middle cerebral artery infarction, and with left hemiplegia agreed to participate in this case study. Patient was unable to walk due to being affected with adynamia. Due to developing necrotizing vasculitis on the left lower extremity, patient underwent a myotomy on the left thigh. The patient was trained with a progressive resistant exercise program for 8 weeks. An intensity of 15 RM was used for the resistant exercises and the resistance level was increased progressively in order to improve the muscle power of the patient. Methods used to increase resistance included changing positions, providing mechanical resistance instead of manual resistance, transitioning from open kinetic chain to closed kinetic chain exercises, and changing the colors of the theraband to those with increase level of resistance. Outcome measures included the 5-repetition sit-to- stand test (5RSST), Timed Up & Go (TUG), and 10-meter walk test (10MWT). In addition, the GAITRite was used to assess the spatio-temporal gait variables, including gait speed, cadence, stride length of the left side, and double limb support pre and post-intervention. Results: The patient was able to perform sit-to- stand after two weeks of performing the resistant exercises. The patient was able to walk after 4 weeks, and the patient's overall gait performance had improved after 8 weeks. All of the variables had improved after each week. Conclusions: The results of this case study may be used to enhance future efforts to objectively evaluate resistant exercises during gait performance in persons affected by SLE.

• 대한한방내과학회지
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• 제23권2호
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• pp.306-312
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• 2002

Systemic Lupus Erythematosus(SLE) is a autoimmune disease characterized by combined symtoms of malar rash, discoid rash, neuropsychiatric disorder, renal disorder, hematologic disorder, photosensitivity immunologic disorder, oral ulcer, anti-nuclear antibody, arthritis, pleuritis and pericarditis, etc. Multiple genetic or environmental causes are supposed to facilitate antiboby production to autoantigen such as ds-DNA, histone, phospholipid, red blood cell, platelet, etc. And defective complementary system fail to remove autoantigen-antibody complex, which deposit in multiple organs and result in inflammatory damages. SLE does not correctly correspond to any specific category of oriental medicine. But, accoring to previous reports, it can be controlled by herb medications used differently patients-to-patients. So we are to report this one SLE case being successfully controlled by classic corticosteroids with herb medications based on oriental diffrential diagnosis of symptoms and signs.

• Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases
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• 제66권5호
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• pp.380-384
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• 2009

비소세포폐암의 일차치료로 사용되고 있는 항암치료제인 docetaxel은 세포주기 정체를 통한 세포자멸을 야기하는 약제로 이로 인한 누클리오좀 유리가 약제유발 홍반루푸스의 원인으로 추정되고 있으나 실제 docetaxel로 야기된 아급성 피부 홍반루푸스의 증례는 지금까지 전세계적으로 4명의 증례 보고만이 있을 뿐이며 국내에서는 아직까지 보고된 바가 없다. 저자들은 비소세포폐암 환자에서 docetaxel과 cisplatin 병합 항암 화학요법 도중 발생한 아급성 피부 홍반루푸스 1예를 경험하였기에 이를 보고하는 바이다.

• Journal of Yeungnam Medical Science
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• 제27권1호
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• pp.78-84
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• 2010

Adult-onset Still's disease (AOSD) is an inflammatory disorder that's characterized by daily, spiking high fever, arthritis and an evanescent, salmon-pink rash. AOSD is diagnosed purely on the basis of the typical clinical features of the illness. The symptoms commonly include swelling of the lymph nodes, enlargement of the spleen and liver, and a sore throat. AOSD is difficult to differentiate from systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) due to the similar clinical manifestations. We report here on a case of a 16-year-old female patient with autism and epilepsy and who complained of daily spiking fever for 20 days. The patient had maculopapular skin rashes on the face and whole body and lymphadenopathy. The liver function tests were elevated mildly. The initial rheumatoid factor (RF) and antinuclear antibody (ANA) tests were negative. We diagnosed her as having adult-onset Still's disease according to the criteria of Yamaguchi. We successfully treated her with oral prednisolone. But her antinuclear antibody test was changed to positive after discharge. So we finally diagnosed her as having SLE.