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BACKGROUND Eosinophilic granulomatosis with polyangiitis (EGPA), also known as Churg-Strauss syndrome (CSS), is a rare vasculitis of unknown etiology. Most of the patients have a long history of asthma and then develop autoimmune inflammation of small and medium-sized blood vessels, with consequent
Guillain-Barré syndrome has been described only rarely in patients with SLE. In this Grand Round we describe a 33-yr-old patient who presented with features of central nervous system lupus, thrombocytopenia, and a severe haemolytic anaemia. Within a few days of her admission, following the
Retinopathy in the context of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is associated with severe disease and poorer prognosis. We studied retinopathy in our cohort of Indian lupus patients. Four hundred and thirty-seven patients fulfilling the Systemic Lupus International Collaborating Clinics-American