%0 Journal Article
%T SLE and Serum Complement: Causative, Concomitant or Coincidental?
%A Michele Quan
%A Vaneet Sandhu
%J Archive of "The Open Rheumatology Journal".
%D 2017
%R 10.2174/1874312901711010113
%X Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE) is an incurable autoimmune disorder with complement activation playing a key role in the pathogenesis of immune-mediated tissue injury. While quantifying complement to monitor SLE disease activity has been the standard of care since the 1950s, decreased complement levels are not consistently associated with flares
%K SLE
%K Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
%K SLE flares'
%K Complement
%K CB-CAPS
%U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5737025/