-transparent.png){kind=logo}
Fifty-five patients with porphyria cutanea tarda (PCT) were examined for the simultaneous occurrence of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). The diagnostic criteria for SLE were those set up by the American Rheumatism Association (ARA). No patient fulfilled the ARA criteria for SLE. Clinical and laboratory features characteristically associated with SLE (although they were not ARA criteria) were simultaneously evaluated. A total of 120 items occurred in those cases but only 15 of these were ARA criteria. These findings, which may suggest the presence of SLE in patients with PCT, might be ascribed to the concomitant liver disease. The simultaneous occurrence of SLE and PCT is reviewed from the literature. The ARA criteria were fulfilled in one third of the reported cases. The coexistence of SLE and PCT might be less frequent than formerly believed.
O Clemmensen, and
K Thomsen
January 2011,
Anais brasileiros de dermatologia,
O Clemmensen, and
K Thomsen
December 1988,
The West Indian medical journal,
O Clemmensen, and
K Thomsen
September 1989,
Zeitschrift fur die gesamte innere Medizin und ihre Grenzgebiete,
O Clemmensen, and
K Thomsen
September 1996,
Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine,
O Clemmensen, and
K Thomsen
November 1999,
Rheumatology (Oxford, England),
O Clemmensen, and
K Thomsen
January 1989,
Dermatologische Monatschrift,
O Clemmensen, and
K Thomsen
September 1985,
International journal of dermatology,
O Clemmensen, and
K Thomsen
July 1972,
Vestnik dermatologii i venerologii,
O Clemmensen, and
K Thomsen
January 1976,
Cutis,
O Clemmensen, and
K Thomsen
December 2012,
Revista brasileira de reumatologia,
