Lupus And The Child
Systemic lupus in children and adolescents in ten key points: Editor: Dr. B. Bader-Meunier, Reference Center "Juvenile Arthritis", Necker Hospital, Paris) Editors: Drs Quartier (Reference Center "Arthritis Juveniles", Paris), Dr. Ranchin (Pediatric Nephrology, Lyon) 1 What is Systemic Lupus? How is Lupus treated and supervised in children and adolescents? SLE is an autoimmune disease that can affect one or more organs, especially the skin, joints, blood cells and kidneys. SLE is a chronic disease which means it can last a long time. Autoimmune means that it is a disease of the immune system that will cause an attack on the patient's own organs. Systemic means that it can reach several organs of the body. The word lupus comes from the Latin word wolf because of the characteristic aspect of the cutaneous involvement of the face with a red plaque in the shape of the mask which is called "wolf". The management of pediatric lupus should be coordinated by a ...