System Lupus International Collaborating Clinics/ACR Damage Index for Systemic Lupus Erythematosus*
Item |
Score |
|---|---|
Ocular (either eye, by clinical assessment) |
|
Any cataract ever |
1 |
Retinal change or optic atrophy |
1 |
Neuropsychiatric |
|
Cognitive impairment (e.g. memory deficit, difficulty with calculation, poor concentration, difficulty in spoken or written language, impaired performance levels) or major psychosis |
1 |
Seizures requiring therapy for 6 months |
1 |
Cerebrovascular accident ever (score 2 if > 1) |
1 (2) |
Cranial or peripheral neuropathy (excluding optic) |
1 |
Transverse myelitis |
1 |
Renal |
|
Estimated or measured glomerular filtration rate<50% |
1 |
Proteinuria ≥3.5 gm/24hours |
1 |
Or |
|
End-stage renal disease (regardless of dialysis or transplantation) |
3 |
Pulmonary |
|
Pulmonary hypertension (right ventricular prominence, or loud P2) |
1 |
Pulmonary fibrosis (physical and radiograph) |
1 |
Shrinking lung (radiograph) |
1 |
Pleural fibrosis (radiograph) |
1 |
Pulmonary infarction (radiograph) |
1 |
Cardiovascular |
|
Angina or coronary artery bypass |
1 |
Myocardial infarction ever (score 2 if > 1) |
1 (2) |
Cardiomyopathy (ventricular dysfunction) |
1 |
Valvular disease (diastolic murmur, or systolic murmur >3/6) |
1 |
Pericarditis for 6 months, or pericardiectomy |
1 |
Peripheral vascular |
|
Claudication for 6 months |
1 |
Minor tissue loss (pulp space) |
1 |
Significant tissue loss ever (e.g. loss of digit or limb)(score 2 if > 1 site) |
1 (2) |
Venous thrombosis with swelling, ulceration, or venous stasis |
1 |
Gastrointestinal |
|
Infarction or resection of bowel below duodenum spleen, liver, or gall bladder ever, for cause any (score 2 if > 1 site) |
1 (2) |
Mesenteric insufficiency |
1 |
Chronic peritonitis |
1 |
Stricture or upper gastrointestinal tract surgery ever |
1 |
Musculoskeletal |
|
Muscle atrophy or weakness |
1 |
Deforming or erosive arthritis (including reducible deformities, excluding avascular necrosis) |
1 |
Osteoporosis with fracture or vertebral collapse (excluding avascular necrosis) |
1 |
Avascular necrosis (score 2 if > 1) |
1 (2) |
Osteomyelitis |
1 |
Skin |
|
Scarring chronic alopecia |
1 |
Extensive scarring or panniculum other than scalp and pulp space |
1 |
Skin ulceration (excluding thrombosis) for > 6 months |
1 |
Premature gonadal failure |
1 |
Diabetes (regardless of treatment) |
1 |
Malignancy (exclude dysplasia) (score 2 if > 1 site) |
1 (2) |
* Damage (nonreversible change, not related to active inflammation) occurring since onset of lupus, ascertained by clinical assessment and present for at least 6 months unless otherwise stated. Repeat episodes must occurat least 6 months apart to score 2. The same lesion cannot be scored twice.




