Alvin Wells, MD, PhD: Let me begin by giving an outline of systemic lupus erythematosus [SLE] and lupus nephritis. If you ask any rheumatologist for a paradigm or hallmark of an autoimmune illness, it’s lupus. I make the analogy that lupus comes from the Latin phrase for wolf. What does that imply? Patients with lupus …
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