Clinical Analysis of Patients With New-Onset Untreated Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Complicated With Cytomegalovirus Infection Short Title: Untreated SLE With CMV Infection
Abstract:We investigated the clinical characteristics and short-term prognosis of patients with new-onset, untreated systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) complicated with active cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection. Of the 86 patients enrolled in this study, 60 had active CMV infection. The proportions of patients with fever (65.0% versus 38.5%, P = 0.041), hematologic system involvement (80.0% versus 57.7%, P = 0.032), kidney involvement (50.0% versus 26.9%, P = 0.047), anti-double-stranded-DNA antibody positivity (51.7% ver… Show more
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