What are the common causes of death in SLE?
The most common causes of death are renal failure and intercurrent infections, followedby diffuse central nervous system disease.R.R.A. Coombs (b. 1921), Professor of Immunology at Cambridge, is reported to havesaid ‘red blood cells were primarily designed by God as tools for the immunologist andonly secondarily as carriers of haemoglobin’.Ferdinand von Hebra (1816-1880) from Vienna described an eruption that occurs’mainly on the face, on the cheeks and nose in a distribution not dissimilar to a butterfly’in 1845.Pierre Louis Alphee Cazenave (1795-1877) from Paris first used the term ‘lupuserythemateux’ in 1851.Sir William Osier (1849-1919) first described the systemic manifestations of systemiclupus erythematosus under the name exudative erythema between 1895 and 1904.
