Patients with systemic lupus erythematosus demonstrate a relatively high rate of retinopathy at initial diagnosis, and may represent an early manifestation of the disease, according to data published in BMC Rheumatology.
“While cutaneous, renal, and musculoskeletal involvement is more common, ocular manifestations of SLE have also been reported in at least a third of patients,” Hamidreza Bashiri, MD, of Shahid Sadoughi Hospital, in Yazd, Iran, and colleagues wrote. “Although ocular manifestations are not recognized as a diagnostic criterion by the American College of