The SLE database at the Rheumatology Clinic, St. Luke's Hospital currently includes 62 patients. The presentation, clinical features, ACR criteria and laboratory findings in RNP positive lupus patients [14] were compared to RNP negative subgroup [33]. RNP positivity was significantly associated with Raynaud's phenomenon (p<0.01), myalgia (p<0.02), myositis (p<0.05), neuropsychiatric features (p<0.05) and Sm positivity (p<0.01). RNP positive patients had a higher frequency of positive family history, mortality, malar and maculopapular rashes, nail-fold infarcts, telangiectasia, digital vasculitis, photosensitivity, arthritis, pleurisy, pericarditis, pericardial effusions, depression, headache, psychosis and TIA.
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Camilleri, F., & Mallia, C. (1999). RNP positivity in Maltese SLE patients. In Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology (Vol. 455, pp. 161–166). Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-4857-7_23
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