A Guide for Nurses

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This site is intended for healthcare professionals as a useful source of information on the diagnosis, treatment and support of patients with lupus and related connective tissue diseases.
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Introduction

This guide has been prepared to introduce nurses to systemic lupus erythematosus, SLE, or lupus as it is referred to throughout this guide.

If you would like a hard copy of the Guide, this is available free of charge to Health Professionals by providing your full details to National Office on
01708 731251 or headoffice@lupusuk.org.uk.

Section Guide

• Foreword
• What is Lupus?
• Diagnosing Lupus
• Commonly Presenting Symptoms
• Treating Lupus
• The Rheumatology Clinic
• The Skin and Lupus
• Managing Fatigue in Lupus
• Psychological and Psychiatric Problems in Lupus
• Lupus and Contraception, Pregnancy and HRT
• Antiphospholipid Syndrome
• Lupus and Renal Disease
• Lupus, the Heart and the Lungs
• Lupus and the Brain
• Secondary Diagnoses to Lupus: Sjögren's Syndrome and Raynaud's Phenomenon

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