Patients with severe lupus nephritis who have both diffuse proliferative (class IV) and membranous (class V) lesions on biopsy can be refractory to current monotherapy treatments. Bao et al. compared ...

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Remission of proteinuria in patients with diffuse proliferative lupus nephritis(LN) is associated with a good prognosis, South Korean researchers reportedonline ahead of print in Lupus. A team led by ...

A 21-year-old white man presents with WHO type 4 diffuse proliferative glomerulonephritis (DPGN), hypertension, low serum C3, C4 complement and high serum level of anti-DNA antibodies, and spilling 6 ...

The optimum therapy for patients with lupus nephritis is a hotly debated topic. Prospective randomized studies in patients with proliferative lupus nephritis have established the superiority of ...

June 19, 2009 (Copenhagen, Denmark) — "Real-life" studies in patients with lupus nephritis show that intravenous (IV) cyclophosphamide is superior to oral cyclophosphamide as induction therapy and ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Overall, 56% of participants had a lupus nephritis class change on repeat biopsy. Of patients with initial ...

Lupus nephritis recurrences, while rare, typically happen within a few years of kidney transplantation. Recurrent lupus nephritis (LN) can manifest suddenly even years after kidney transplantation and ...

In this video, Craig Gordon, MD, nephrologist at Tufts Medical Center and associate professor of medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine, discusses baseline characteristics in a case of lupus ...

KNOWLEDGE of the natural history and structural aspects of glomerular diseases has been extended in recent years by the use of renal biopsies. However, the concepts derived from such studies are based ...