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SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS. DEFINATION. SYSTAMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS IS A DISEASE OF UNKNOWN ETIOLOGY IN WHICH TISSUES AND CELLS ARE DAMAGED BY PATHOGENIC AUTOANTIBODIES AND IMMUNE COMPLEXES
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DEFINATION SYSTAMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS IS A DISEASE OF UNKNOWN ETIOLOGY IN WHICH TISSUES AND CELLS ARE DAMAGED BY PATHOGENIC AUTOANTIBODIES AND IMMUNE COMPLEXES • 90% OF CASES ARE WOMEN USUSALLY CHID-BEARING AGE BUT CHILDREN, MEN AND ELDERLY PERSON CAN BE AFECTED • PRAVELENCE RATE IS APPROX.15 TO 50 CASES PER 100,000 POPULATION
ACLE – ACUTE CUTANEOUS LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS • SCLE – SUB ACUTE CUTANEOUS LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS • CCLE – CHRONIC CUTANEOUS LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS
PATHOGENESIS • TISSUE DAMAGE CAUSED BY • AUTOANTIBODIES • IMMUNE COMPLEXES • ABNORMAL IMMUNE RESPONSES ARE • 1. POLYCLONAL ANTIGEN SPECIFIC T & B CELL HYPERREACTIVITY • 2. INADEQUATE REGULATION OF HYPERREACTIVITY
ABNORMAL IMMUNE RESPONSES DEPEND UPON INTERACTION BETWEEN • SUSCEPTIBILITY GENES- ACLE - DR2,DR3 SCLE- HLA-B8,DR3 & DEFICIENCES OF C2,C3,C4 DLE - HLA B-7 DR2,DR3,DQ • ENVIRONMENT- • 1. UV LIGHT >70 % CASES HAS PHOTOSENSITIVITY • 2. DRUGS - PROCAINAMIDE, HYDRALAZINE, INH, PHENYTOIN, MINOCYCLINE 3.. VIRUSES CMV, EPSTEIN-BARR VIRUSES
CLINICAL MANIFESTATION • ACLE – SKIN LESIONS WAX & WANE IN PARALLEL WITH UNDERLYING DISEASE ACTIVITY, NO SCARRING • LOCALISED - SYMETIRCAL ERYTHEMA & EDEMA AT MALAR EMINENCES • GENERALISED - MORBILLIFORM/ EXANTHEMATOUS ERUOTIONS • SCLE - PHOTOSENSITIVITY • ANNULAR ERYTHEMA, PSORIASIFORM , EM. EYRTHRODERMA.& • NO SCARRING • ASSOCOATION WITH RO/SS-A ANTIBODIES & MALIGNANCIES-BREAST,LUNGS,GI,HODGKIN’S DISEASE. AOTOIMMUNE DISEASES
CCLE • DISCOID ERYTHEMATOUS PLAQUES WITH ADHERENT SCALE & FOLLICULAR PLUGS-CARPET TACK SIGN • HYPERPIGMENTATION AT PERIPHERY, AROPHIC CENTRAL SCARING, • TELENGIEACTASIA, • HYPOPIGMENTATION, • SCARING ALOPECIAS, • OCCURS AT SUN EXPOSED AREAS • HYPERTROPHIC DLE • BULLOUS LESIONS • MUCOSAL – 25% OF CASES • LUPUS PANNICULITIS
RISK FACTORS FOR DEVELOPMENT OF SLE IN PAITENT OF DLE • DIFFUSE NONSARRING ALOPECIA • GENERELISED LYMPHADENOPATHY • PERIUNGAL NAIL FOLD TELENGIACTASIA • RAYNAUD’S PHENOMENON • UNEXPLANED ANEMIA • LEUCOPENIA • FALSE POSITIVE TEST FOR SYPHILS • HIGH TITER OF ANA • ANTI ssDNA ANTIBODIES • ELEVETED ESR
ACUTE LE BUTTER FLY LESION
TREATMENT • LOCAL – • SUN SCREENS • TOPICAL GLUCOCORTICOCOIDS • SYSTAMIC • ANTIMALARIALS- • CHLOROQUIN • HYDROXYCHOLROQUIN • DAPSONE • RETINOIDS • CLOFAZIMINE • SYSTAMIC GLUCOCORTICOIDS • AZATHIOPRINE • CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE