For National Skincare Awareness Month, Ashara Collie is sharing her journey of being diagnosed and living with discoid lupus – a type of lupus that affects the skin and often causes round, disc-shaped ...

Both subacute cutaneous lupus and discoid lupus are a form of lupus skin disease, though they have some distinct differences. Subacute cutaneous lupus may show up as ring-shaped red, scaly lesions.

SAN ANTONIO — Distinguishing between the various forms of cutaneous lupus can be challenging, even for experienced clinicians. If a patient presents with a malar rash — also known as a butterfly rash ...

The importance of diagnosing systemic lupus erythematosus and its variants early in the course of disease cannot be overstressed. Medscape's Helen Fosam, PhD, Editorial Director of Rheumatology, ...

Dear Dr. Roach: What is lupus, and what does it do to your body? I just had a friend diagnosed with it after many months of tests. — T.S.B. Dear T.S.B.: The term "lupus" generally means systemic lupus ...

Lupus is a common autoimmune disease that often has cutaneous features. Patients range from healthy people with purely cutaneous disease to those with severe multisystem disease in which the skin is ...

People with discoid lupus erythematosus (DLE) living in areas marked by poverty tended to have more severe manifestations, a study in Philadelphia found, whereas associations with racial identity were ...

A biopsy of one of the papules revealed vacuolar change at the dermal-epidermal junction, follicular plugging, and hyperkeratosis. The girl was diagnosed with discoid lupus erythematosus (DLE) ...

Kyleigh MacGregor plans her life five years at a time. MacGregor has lupus, an incurable disease in which her immune system attacks her body’s organs and tissue. It’s been a year since MacGregor, 31, ...

Systemic Lupus Erythematosus is one of the most complex autoimmune diseases seen in modern medicine, affecting multiple organs and presenting differently from one patient to another. Often referred to ...

Imagine your body attacking itself. That’s what happens with lupus, a chronic autoimmune disease affecting millions worldwide. Lupus Alert Day is a chance to shine a spotlight on this condition. It’s ...