SLE patients characteristics.

Diagnoses were based on ARA criteria. SLE: Systemic Lupus Erythematosus; APS: Anti-Phospholipid Syndrome; DLE: Discoid Lupus Erythematosus; ESR: Erythrocyte Sedimentation Rate in mm/h (first hour); ANA: Anti-Nuclear Antibodies. nd: not done; CD20+LAIR1− B cells determined by immunofluorescence in each patients are also shown. MP: methyl-prednisolone; P: prednisone; D: deflazacort; F: fluocortolone; Aza: azathioprine; HC: hydroxy chloroquine; My: mycophenolate mofetil; CsA: cyclosporin A; Cy: cyclophosphamide. Data of ESR, ANA and percentages of CD20+LAIR1− cells are referred to the same sample of venous blood for each patient.