Drug-induced lupus erythematosus natural history, complications and prognosis

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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]; Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Cafer Zorkun, M.D., Ph.D. [2]

Complications

• Infection
• Thrombocytopenia purpura -- bleeding near the skin surface, resulting from a low number of platelets in the blood
• Hemolytic anemia
• Myocarditis
• Percarditis

Prognosis

Prognosis of drug-induced lupus erythematosus is better than systemic lupus erythemathosus. Symptoms usually disappear within several days to weeks after stopping the medication that caused the condition.