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Lupus. Lupus, technically known as systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), is an autoimmune disease in which the body's immune system mistakenly attacks healthy tissue in many parts of the body. [1] Symptoms vary among people and may be mild to severe. [1] Common symptoms include painful and swollen joints, fever, chest pain, hair loss, mouth ...
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Tinnitus. Tinnitus is usually associated with hearing loss and decreased comprehension of speech in noisy environments. [2] It is common, affecting about 10–15% of people. Most tolerate it well, and it is a significant problem in only 1–2% of people. [5]
dry eyes, dry mouth, hair loss, joint inflammation, joint pain, mouth ulcers, positive ANA test, raynaud's phenomenon, sun-sensitive rash... 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.
Cerebritis usually occurs as a result of an underlying condition, which causes the inflammation of the brain tissue. It is commonly found in patients with lupus. Lupus cerebritis may occur in adults and children. The duration of the central nervous system involvement may vary from a few minutes, as in classic migraine or a transient ischemic ...
Behçet's disease (BD) is a type of inflammatory disorder which affects multiple parts of the body. [2] The most common symptoms include painful sores on the mucous membranes of the mouth and other parts of the body, inflammation of parts of the eye, and arthritis. [1][2] The sores can last from a few days, up to a week or more. [2]
Diagramatic representation of mucosal erosion (left), excoriation (center), and ulceration (right) Simplistic representation of the life cycle of mouth ulcers. An ulcer (/ ˈ ʌ l s ər /; from Latin ulcus, "ulcer, sore") [2] is a break in the skin or mucous membrane with loss of surface tissue and the disintegration and necrosis of epithelial tissue. [3]
The most common early symptoms of these intracanalicular (IAC) VSs are gradual hearing loss and a feeling of fullness in the affected ear, some imbalance or dizziness, and tinnitus (ringing or other noise in the ear). [13] Gradual single-sided hearing loss in the high frequencies is the first most obvious symptom for the great majority of ...
Cardiology, neurology, rheumatology. Cerebral vasculitis (sometimes the word angiitis is used instead of "vasculitis") is vasculitis (inflammation of the blood vessel wall) involving the brain and occasionally the spinal cord. [1] It affects all of the vessels: very small blood vessels (capillaries), medium-size blood vessels (arterioles and ...