An Observational Study on Clinical Insights and Outcome Prediction of Lupus Enteritis in Indian Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Patients.

Background: Lupus enteritis (LE) is the most common serious gastrointestinal manifestation of SLE. Indian literature on LE is limited, while most of the data comes from China and Western series with recent efforts on developing prediction models for its occurrence & recurrence

Objectives: The objectives of the study were to analyse clinical and laboratory parameters of LE, to compare recurrent versus non-recurrent LE and to identify predictors of its recurrence and mortality.

Method: Patients with LE who were admitted to the Rheumatology ward from 2018-2022 were considered cases.