SLE Diagnosis Made Easy Kozhikode Criteria

What is it about?

Diagnosis of SLE is very difficult by using the American College of Rheumatology Criteria, we have been using a simple clinical criteria namely the Kozhikode Criteria, in our institution for the last two decades and the present study has validated the same. Kozhikode Criteria which was originally devised by Professor PK Sasidharan, makes the diagnosis easy, enabling clinicians to make an early diagnosis and pass on the benefit to the patients by early initiation of the most appropriate therapy.

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Why is it important?

Early and prompt diagnosis improves the survival of the patients and reduces the misery of a very serious clinical problem

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