[ XXXX in 24 tunisian males: clinico-biological analysis and clinical course].

@entity1 @entity8 @entity625 @entity1910 @entity1252 @entity2407 @entity11534 @entity715
PURPOSE: The @entity1252 ( @entity1252 ) is rare at the male. The clinic and biological characteristics and the evolution are variable between different studies. From 24 Tunisian observations we try to contribute to the precision of these characteristics on this ground. METHOD: It's a tunisian, multicentric, retrospective study of 24 males lupus, follow-up from 1990 to 1999 within a total lupus cohort of 295 @entity1 . RESULTS: The sex-ratio female/male is 11/29, mean age at diagnosis is 31.75 years (range 10 to 63). The most frequent clinical manifestations are: @entity625 (95%), @entity1910 (71%), photosensitivity (41%), glomerular @entity8 (66%) (classes III and IV = 7 cases/9), the @entity11534 (37.5%) and @entity2407 (25%). Comparing these characteristics of two @entity1 groups (24 males and 271 females), significant difference was observed : vascular @entity715 in male (16% vs 4% p : 0,027) and alopecia in female (12.5% vs 4% p : 0.03). For the other manifestations as @entity8 and @entity11534 which are frequent in male the difference was not significant. The overall survival rate at 5 years 93% is and it was nearly the same in @entity1 @entity1252 @entity1 . CONCLUSION: @entity1252 in male is rare. In @entity1252 male @entity1 vascular @entity715 and @entity8 are more frequent without survival's influence.
