"Here, we present 5 patients with CGD developing LE at different ages to emphasize on the importance of appropriate follow–up and treatment in patients with CGD with clinical signs and symptoms of autoimmune diseases and '''even in those with negative serologic results'''".</ref>, selvom patienten har (subklinisk) Lupus. Dette ses især hos bærere af den X-bundne version af Kronisk Granulomatøs Sygdom. <ref>"Doctors refer to these symptoms as ''lupus-like'' because most XL-CGD carrier females who have been tested for lupus do not have the auto-antibodies used to diagnose lupus or, if they do, their blood test results are only weakly positive".
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