Medicine Grand Rounds feature weekly topic and case-based presentations designed to provide faculty and trainees with up-to-date knowledge about timely issues in internal medicine.

Faculty Name: Michelle Petri, MD, MPH

Title of Talk: Update on SLE Classification, ​Treatment, and Complications

Learning Objectives:

• Classification/diagnosis of SLE: consideration of how little positive ANA helps.​

• Treatment pitfalls: review of the harm that reliance on prednisone causes over time. Targeted biologics and small molecules offer hope of efficacy without such major toxicity.​

• Complications of SLE: discuss why SLE remains the 5-6th leading cause of death in young minority women in the U.S.