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2. Mixed connective tissue disease - Wikipedia

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   [71] [44] [25] Methotrexate has been observed to be useful in more severe cases. [72] If methotrexate is contraindicated, alternative disease-modifying medications for RA, such as leflunomide or azathioprine, may be used. [68] High dosages of corticosteroids are typically effective in treating acute severe myositis. [44] [73]

3. Disease-modifying antirheumatic drug - Wikipedia

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   Although the use of the term DMARDs was first propagated in rheumatoid arthritis (hence their name), the term has come to pertain to many other diseases, such as Crohn's disease, lupus erythematosus, Sjögren syndrome, immune thrombocytopenic purpura, myasthenia gravis, sarcoidosis, and various others.

4. Methotrexate - Wikipedia

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   Methotrexate was originally developed and continues to be used for chemotherapy, either alone or in combination with other agents.It is effective for the treatment of several cancers, including solid tumours of breast, head and neck, lung, bladder, as well as acute lymphocytic leukemias, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, osteosarcoma, and choriocarcinoma and other trophoblastic neoplasms.

5. Drug-induced lupus erythematosus - Wikipedia

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   Drug-induced lupus erythematosus is an autoimmune disorder caused by chronic use of certain drugs. These drugs cause an autoimmune response (the body attacks its own cells) producing symptoms similar to those of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE).

6. Undifferentiated connective tissue disease - Wikipedia

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   Undifferentiated connective tissue disease (UCTD) (also known as latent lupus or incomplete lupus [1]) is a disease in which the connective tissues are targeted by the immune system. It is a serological and clinical manifestation of an autoimmune disease .

7. Scientists say they have identified lupus' root cause — and ...

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   The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that more than 200,000 people in the U.S. have lupus, though the Lupus Foundation of America puts the total much higher: roughly 1.5 ...

8. Lupus vasculitis - Wikipedia

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   Cutaneous vasculitis is the most common type of vasulitis amongst those with systemic lupus erythematosus. [7] The clinical presentation is variable and can include superficial ulcerations, splinter hemorrhages, panniculitis, macules, erythema with necrosis or erythematous plaques, cutaneous infarction, livedo reticularis, bullous lesions of the extremities or urticaria lesions, papulonodular ...

9. Why was it never lupus? “House” creator answers burning ...

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   "Lupus was the perfect disease for us!" showrunner David Shore says with a laugh ahead of the 20th anniversary. The doctor is back in. Well, sort of.