Vicenç Torrente-Segarra, Tarek C Salman-Monte, Íñigo Rúa-Figueroa, Víctor Del Campo, Francisco Javier López-Longo, María Galindo-Izquierdo, Jaime Calvo-Alén, Alejandro Olivé-Marqués, Coral Mouriño-Rodríguez, Loreto Horcada, Cristina Bohórquez, Carlos Montilla, Eva Salgado, Elvira Díez-Álvarez, Ricardo Blanco, José Luis Andreu, Olaia Fernández-Berrizbeitia, Lorena Expósito, Marian Gantes, Blanca Hernández-Cruz, Ángela Pecondón-Español, Nuria Lozano-Rivas, Gema Bonilla, Ana Lois Iglesias, Paula Rubio-Muñoz, Juan Ovalles, Eva Tomero, Alina Boteanu, Javier Narvaez, Mercedes Freire, Paloma Vela, Víctor Quevedo-Vila, Antonio Juan Mas, Santiago Muñoz-Fernández, Enrique Raya, Mireia Moreno, M L Velloso-Feijoo, Gregorio Soler, Tomás Ramón Vázquez-Rodríguez, José M Pego-Reigosa
OBJECTIVE: To assess the incidence of serious infection (SI) and associated factors in a large juvenile-onset systemic lupus erythematosus (jSLE) retrospective cohort. METHODS: All patients in the Spanish Rheumatology Society Lupus Registry (RELESSER) who meet ≥4 ACR-97 SLE criteria and disease onset <18 years old (jSLE), were retrospectively investigated for SI (defined as either the need for hospitalization with antibacterial therapy for a potentially fatal infection or death caused by the infection)...
May 30, 2020: Seminars in Arthritis and Rheumatism