The clinical characteristics of new-onset SLE patients diagnosed with 2019 criteria
Clinical criteria | Positive/total patients (%) |
N | 96 |
Fever | 40/96 (42) |
Cutaneous domain | |
Acute cutaneous lupus | 24/96 (25) |
Subacute cutaneous lupus or discord rash | 25/96 (26) |
Non-scaring alopecia | 19/96 (20) |
Oral ulcer | 18/96 (19) |
Arthritis domain | 51/96 (53) |
Serositis domain | 25/96 (26) |
Pleural or pericardial effusion | 21/96 (22) |
Acute pericarditis | 4/96 (4) |
Renal domain | 37/96 (39) |
Protein >0.5 g/24 hours | 37/96 (39) |
Class Ⅱ or Ⅴ lupus nephritis | 0/96 (0) |
Class Ⅲ or Ⅳ lupus nephritis | 0/96 (0) |
Neurologic domain | |
Seizure | 0/96 (0) |
Psychosis | 0/96 (0) |
Delirium | 0/96 (0) |
Haematologic domain | |
Leucopenia | 61/96 (64) |
Thrombocytopenia | 31/96 (32) |
Autoimmune haemolysis | 57/96 (59) |
Laboratory criteria | Positive/total patients (%) |
Immunologic | |
Anticardiolipin antibodies | 10/96 (10) |
Antibeta2-glycoprotein antibodies | 23/96 (24) |
Lupus anticoagulant | 26/96 (27) |
Complement domain | 86/96 (90) |
Highly specific antibodies domain | |
Anti-dsDNA antibody | 87/96 (91) |
Anti-Sm antibody | 20/96 (21) |
Anti-dsDNA, antibodies to double-stranded DNA; Anti-Sm, anti-Smith; SLE, systemic lupus erythematosus.