A recent study underscores the effectiveness of kidney transplants in people with lupus nephritis and the importance of getting those on dialysis on the kidney transplant list as early as possible, even in the presence of active lupus.
Panniculitis — a group of conditions that causes painful bumps to appear under the skin — is a rare manifestation of childhood-onset systemic lupus erythematosus (cSLE) that occurs mainly in the first three years of disease, and seems to be an indicator of less severe systemic lupus, a study found.