Mycophenolate Mofetil and Erythromycin for Bullous Lupus Erythematosus of Childhood
Bibliographic record
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Bullous lupus erythematosus is a rare disease that is extremely rare in childhood (with only seven previous reports) and difficult to control. OBJECTIVE: Herein is presented the youngest patient reported with this condition, and a novel, safe, and effective treatment regimen is described. METHODS: Through study, perseverance, serendipity, and creativity, a safe and effective regimen was developed. RESULTS: The combination of mycophenolate mofetil and erythromycin (plus sun protection) was found to be efficacious. CONCLUSION: It is proposed that the two medications act synergistically, with the "antibiotic" acting as a antiinflammatory agent, but at a different point in the inflammatory cascade than mycophenolate mofetil. This suggests the approach of using common, inexpensive, and benign antibiotics to potentiate, and perhaps decrease the use of, immunomodulatory agents in autoimmune and autoinflammatory diseases.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".