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Lupus Awareness Month October 2017

Lupus is a complex and poorly understood condition that affects many parts of the body. The symptoms can range from mild to life-threatening.

The 2017 Lupus Awareness Month campaign will be using the hashtag #THISISLUPUS. The aim of the campaign is to make the invisible visible! The team at LUPUS UK are encouraging individuals to share photos, videos and stories from people affected by lupus around this theme, in the hope of making people more aware of lupus, which can then help control its impact. Is there a side of you that your friends or family don’t usually see? Have you been the victim of abuse from people who did not realise that you were unwell? Have you struggled to get people to understand how much you are affected by your lupus?

For more information surrounding Lupus please visit the NHS Choices and Lupus UK websites: http://www.nhs.uk/conditions/Lupus/Pages/Introduction.aspx http://www.lupusuk.org.uk/

RELATED HEALTH LIBRARY RESOURCES  
For anyone studying the importance of improving knowledge of and supporting those who suffer from Lupus, the Health Library offers numerous resources related to the subject. In the lists below you’ll find a variety of items as well as information on materials recently added to our collection and available periodicals. To locate these items, simply go to our online catalogue or ask at the counter.
BOOKS
·       Lupus; diagnosis and treatment / by Yvonne, 2009, Romford: Norton Lupus UK
·       Systemic lupus erythematosus : a companion to Rheumatology / by George C Tsokos; Caroline Gordon, 2007, Philadelphia : Mosby Elsevier.
·       Lupus: the essential clinician's guide / by Daniel J. Wallace, 2014, Oxford : Oxford University Press.
·       Rheumatology and the kidney / by Dwomoa Adu; Paul Emery; Michael P Madaio, 2001, Oxford : Oxford University Press.
·       Rheumatology : evidence-based practice for physiotherapists and occupational therapists / by Krysia Dziedzic; Alison Hammond, 2010, Edinburgh: Churchill Livingstone. [Also available as a ebook.]
·       Landmark papers in rheumatology / by David G. I. Scott and Richard Watts (ed.s), 2015, Oxford : Oxford University Press.
·       Rheumatology secrets / by Sterling G. West, 2015, 3rd edition, Philadelphia: Elsevier.
·       Rheumatology / by Marc C. Hochberg et al., 2011, 5th edition, Philadelphia : Mosby/Elsevier.

JOURNALS
·       Lupus, Houndmills, Basingstoke : Stockton Press. [Available as a Keele & NHS ejournal 1998 onwards.]
·       Scandinavian journal of rheumatology, London : Informa Healthcare [Available in print, and also as a Keele & NHS ejournal 1998 onwards with a 18 month embargo.]
·       Journal of clinical rheumatology, Philadelphia, PA : Lippincott, William & Wilkins. [Available as a Keele ejournal 1995 – 2008.]
·       The open rheumatology journal : Research and Reviews, Auckland, NZ : Dove Medical Press. [Open access journal 2009 onwards.]
·       The Journal of rheumatology, Toronto, Journal of Rheumatology Pub. Co. [Available as a Keele ejournal 2001 onwards.]
·       Clinical rheumatology, London : Springer London. [Available as a Keele ejournal 1997 onwards & as a NHS ejournal 1997 onwards with a 1 year embargo.]
·       International Journal of Rheumatology, New York, NY : Hindawi Publishing Corp. [Available as a Keele & NHS ejournal 2009 onwards.]
·       Case Reports in Rheumatology, New York, NY : Hindawi Publishing Cor. [Available as a Keele & NHS ejournal 2011 onwards.]
Access more journals via our Journals webpage: https://www.keele.ac.uk/healthlibrary/find/journals/
JOURNAL ARTICLES
·       Hammond, Blaine, “Lupus”, Psychological Perspectives, 2004, Vol.47(1), pp.30-31. [Available via Keele ejournals]
·       Shaikh, Shakil et al., “A rare cause of myocardial injury in a patient with systemic lupus erythematosus: hydroxychloroquine induced cardiomyopathy”, Journal of the American College of Cardiology, Mar 21, 2017, Vol.69(11, Supplement), pp.2376-2377. [Available via Keele & NHS ejournals]
·       Pearce, Lynne, “Systemic lupus erythematosus”, Nursing Standard, 2016, Vol.30(43), p.17. [Available via Keele & NHS ejournals]
·       Nobbe, Stephan et al., “Neonatal lupus”, The Journal of pediatrics, 2011, Vol.158(2), pp.341-341.e1 [Available in print, and also via Keele & NHS ejournals]
·       Manzo, Ciro and Slavatore Putignano, “Drug-induced lupus erythematosus associated with donepezil: a case report”, Age and Ageing, 2015, Vol. 44(6), pp.1062-1063. [Available via Keele & NHS ejournals]
·       Chandrasekaran, Uma et al., “Regulation of Effector Treg Cells in Murine Lupus”, Arthritis & Rheumatology, June 2016, Vol.68(6), pp.1454-1466. [Available via Keele & NHS ejournals]
PAITENT INFORMATION / PAITENT ADVICE
Lupus - NHS Evidence search with ‘Information for the Public’ filter: https://www.evidence.nhs.uk/Search?om=[{%22ety%22:[%22Information%20for%20the%20Public%22]}]&q=Lupus&sp=on
Lupus erythematosus - NHS Evidence search with ‘Information for the Public’ filter: https://www.evidence.nhs.uk/Search?om=[{%22ety%22:[%22Information%20for%20the%20Public%22]}]&q=lupus+erythematosus&sp=on
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