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I was recently diagnosed with discoid lupus. What is the likelihood of this progressing to systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) in the future?

April 26, 2017diagnosed discoid erythematosus future lupus progressing SLE Systemic

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I was recently diagnosed with discoid lupus. What is the likelihood of this progressing to systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) in the future?

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Discoid lupus erythematosus (DLE) is a chronic, disfiguring skin disease which is part of the LE (lupus erythematosus) spectrum of disease, which also includes systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and subacute cutaneous lupus (SCLE). It can also be a feature of SLE. Although some studies have estimated a rate of progression of DLE to SLE as high as 20 percent, two large retrospective studies showed a rate of progression of less than two percent. It is said that about ten percent of DLE cases will remit spontaneously.