McElhone, K;
Abbott, J;
Hurley, M;
Burnell, J;
Lanyon, P;
Rahman, A;
Yee, C-S;
... Teh, L-S; + view all
(2021)
Flares in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus.
Rheumatology
, 60
(7)
pp. 3262-3267.
10.1093/rheumatology/keaa777.
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Abstract
Objective: SLE is characterized by relapses and remissions. We aimed to describe the frequency, type and time to flare in a cohort of SLE patients. // Methods: SLE patients with one or more ‘A’ or ‘B’ BILAG-2004 systems meeting flare criteria (‘new’ or ‘worse’ items) and requiring an increase in immunosuppression were recruited from nine UK centres and assessed at baseline and monthly for 9 months. Subsequent flares were defined as: severe (any ‘A’ irrespective of number of ‘B’ flares), moderate (two or more ‘B’ without any ‘A’ flares) and mild (one ‘B’). // Results: Of the 100 patients, 94% were female, 61% White Caucasians, mean age (S.D.) was 40.7 years (12.7) and mean disease duration (S.D.) was 9.3 years (8.1). A total of 195 flares re-occurred in 76 patients over 781 monthly assessments (flare rate of 0.25/patient-month). There were 37 severe flares, 32 moderate flares and 126 mild flares. By 1 month, 22% had a mild/moderate/severe flare and 22% had a severe flare by 7 months. The median time to any ‘A’ or ‘B’ flare was 4 months. Severe/moderate flares tended to be in the system(s) affected at baseline, whereas mild flares could affect any system. // Conclusion: In a population with active SLE we observed an ongoing rate of flares from early in the follow-up period with moderate–severe flares being due to an inability to fully control the disease. This real-world population study demonstrates the limitations of current treatments and provides a useful reference population from which to inform future clinical trial design.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Flares in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1093/rheumatology/keaa777 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1093/rheumatology/keaa777 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © The Author(s) 2020. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the British Society for Rheumatology. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
| Keywords: | flares, disease activity, BILAG-2004 index, SLE |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Medical Sciences > Div of Medicine UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Medical Sciences > Div of Medicine > Inflammation |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10135611 |
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