Lupus nephritis
Are serum cystatin C levels influenced by steroid doses in lupus nephritis patients?
... Introduction: Cystatin C is considered a promising test to evaluate glomerular filtration rate, since it has characteristics of an ideal endogenous marker, being similar or even superior to serum creatinine according to ...
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Significance of global versus segmental subclassification of class III and IV lupus nephritis: a single center experience
... of lupus nephritis (LN) and there are contradictory reports on whether LN class IV-G (glo bal) differs from LN class IV-S (segmental), as envisaged by the International Society of Nephrology and the Renal ...
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Morphological Indexes: Can They Predict Lupus Nephritis Outcomes? A Retrospective Study
... Material and Methods: Patients with kidney biopsy demonstrating lupus nephritis from the 2010 – 2016 period were included. We ana- lyzed their demographic data, comorbidities, clinical presentation and ...
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The Use of a Decision Board to Elicit Brazilian Patients' and Physicians' Preferences for Treatment: the Case of Lupus Nephritis
... The LN DB was used during individual interviews [25]. The con- tent was presented and added to during the course of the inter- view (Fig. 1). At the beginning of the interview participants were given a summary ...
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Serum Renalase Levels Correlate with Disease Activity in Lupus Nephritis.
... Lupus nephritis (LN) is one of the most serious complications of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), affecting 60% of patients and accounting for significant morbidity and mortality ...
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Pp65 antigenemia and cytomegalovirus diagnosis in patients with lupus nephritis: report of a series Pp65 antigenemia e diagnóstico de citomegalovírus em pacientes com nefrite lúpica: série de casos
... Case 5. An 18-year-old woman diagnosed wi- th SLE five years before, when she presented malar exanthema, polyarthritis, pleural effusion, and lupus nephritis (IV) with proteinuria of 3.2 g/day (anti- -dsDNA ...
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Lupus nephritis in Bangladesh: unfolding the story
... Lupus nephritis (LN) represents the most dreadful complication of patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). It is responsible for a major share of morbidity and mortality in these patients. ...
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Antigenemia pp65 e diagnóstico de citomegalovírus em pa- cientes com nefrite lúpica: série de casos Pp65 antigenemia and cytomegalovirus diagnosis in patients with lupus nephritis: report of a series
... Introduction: In contrast to organ trans- plantation, few studies correlate the monitoring of pp65 antigenemia with a diagnosis of cytomegalovirus (CMV) in patients with systemic lupus erythema- tosus (SLE). ...
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Rev. Bras. Reumatol. vol.53 número5 en v53n5a08
... 15 lupus patients. Of these, 12 patients had a previous diagnosis of lupus nephritis, one demonstrat- ed serositis, and another had suffered from SLE for seven months, presenting with evidence of ...
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Immunoglobulin E and systemic lupus erythematosus
... temic lupus erythematosus and allergy ...in lupus nephritis has been claimed by some research groups that observed an increased serum concentration of this immu- noglobulin in renal SLE patients ...
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Einstein (São Paulo) vol.12 número1
... Rovin et al. studied the efficacy and safety of RTX in a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study in patients with lupus nephritis treated concomitantly with mycophenolate and corticosteroids. One ...
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Sao Paulo Med. J. vol.133 número2
... erythematosus patients studied here were common. In the present sample, Class V was the class with greatest constancy. Until more data is available on our population, it is advisable to perform a second renal biopsy in ...
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J. Bras. Nefrol. vol.39 número1
... are the third leading cause of chronic renal disease, accounting for 11% of di- alysis patients. Studies on the prevalence of this disease in Northeastern Brazil are scarce. Objective: The aim was to describe the ...
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Isotipos IgG e IgM anti-dsDNA em pacientes com lúpus eritematoso sistêmico
... IgG anti-dsDNA antibodies are associated to lupus nephritis. Recent data suggest that IgM isotype is nephroprotector. We evaluated the frequency of IgG anti-dsDNA in patients with systemic lupus ...
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Juvenile Systemic Lupus Erythematosus in Portugal: clinical and immunological patterns of disease expression in a cohort of 56 patients
... complications were uncommon, as brain infarcts and organic brain syndrome in 4 (7.1%) patients. Antinu- clear antibodies and anti-double stranded DNA were positive in most patients in (98.2% and 71.4% res- pectively), as ...
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Rev. Bras. Reumatol. vol.52 número5 en v52n5a16
... In the fi rst case herein reported, PRES was diagnosed in a patient with active lupus nephritis undergoing MP pulse therapy. Both renal disease and MP infusion could be triggered PRES in this case, but the ...
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Prevalência de sintomas psiquiátricos em pacientes com lúpus eritematoso sistêmico de um centro de referência
... ABSTRACT - The frequency of neuropsychiatric manifestations in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is variable in the literature. This cross-sectional study originally evaluates the prevalence of psychiatric ...
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Indicadores de reserva ovariana em mulheres com lúpus eritematoso sistêmico
... Systemic Lupus International Collaborating Clinics/ACR – Damage Index (SLICC/ACR-DI) (19), both measured in the last regular visit, were used to assess SLE disease activity and cumulative ...
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Stevens-Johnson syndrome and toxic epidermal necrolysis in childhood-onset systemic lupus erythematosus patients: a multicenter study
... Complement levels (CH50, C3 and C4) were as- sessed by immunodiffusion, turbidimetric im- munoassay or immunonephelometry. Anti-double- -stranded DNA (anti-dsDNA) was assessed by indirect immunofluorescence or Enzyme ...
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