Skip Navigation

This Article
Right arrow Full Text Freely available
Right arrow FREE Full Text (PDF) Freely available
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Similar articles in ISI Web of Science
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Add to My Personal Archive
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrow Search for citing articles in:
ISI Web of Science (4)
Right arrowRequest Permissions
Right arrow Disclaimer
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by Clutterbuck, D. J.
Right arrow Articles by Bradbeer, C.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
PubMed
Right arrow Articles by Clutterbuck, D. J.
Right arrow Articles by Bradbeer, C.
Social Bookmarking
Add to CiteULike   Add to Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us  
What's this?

Rheumatology 2000; 39: 1047-1048
© 2000 British Society for Rheumatology

Letters to the Editor

Presence of HIV infection in patients diagnosed with systemic lupus erythematosus

D. J. Clutterbuck, J. Watson1, A. De Ruiter1, T. Godfrey2 and C. Bradbeer1

Department of GU Medicine, Level 1, Lauriston Building, Lauriston Place, Edinburgh EH3 9YW and
1 Department of GU Medicine and
2 Louise Coote Lupus Unit St. Thomas' Hospital, London, SE1 7EH, UK

The first 10% of the full text of this article appears below.

SIR, Young females, the population in whom systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is most commonly diagnosed, are not regarded as being at high risk of HIV infection in the UK. We describe two cases in which a diagnosis of seronegative SLE was made on clinical grounds some time before the detection of HIV infection.

Case 1 was a 35-yr-old white Colombian-born woman who presented in November 1996 with knee and elbow pain, dry eyes and mouth and symptoms suggestive of Raynaud's phenomenon. She had . . . [Full Text of this Article]


Add to CiteULike CiteULike   Add to Connotea Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us Del.icio.us    What's this?