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Revista Portuguesa de Pneumologia
Print version ISSN 0873-2159
Abstract
PEREIRA, João Cláudio Barroso. Systemic lupus erythematosus association with tuberculosis - Critical review. Rev Port Pneumol [online]. 2008, vol.14, n.6, pp.843-855. ISSN 0873-2159.
The author provides a critical analysis of systemic lupus erythematosus associated with tuberculosis. A brief review of the lupus-tuberculosis association is also given, and stresses that extra-pulmonary TB is the most usual form of TB in these cases. Other issues considered are the heat shock proteins of Mycobacterium tuberculosis HSP70KDa and HSP65KDa families and TLR2, TLR4, TLR9 that can be involved in interaction between bacilli antigen and host tissue causing autoimmune induction by lupus. The author concludes that early diagnosis and appropriate management are mandatory in SLE associated with TB, in areas where TB is endemic.
Keywords : SLE -TB association; clinical series review; extrapulmonary forms; early diagnosis.