On May 7, 2025, the American College of Rheumatology (ACR) released the full guideline for diagnosing, monitoring, and treating lupus nephritis (LN), which appeared in Arthritis & Rheumatology.

Testing used in evaluating and diagnosing kidney issues include a urine test or urinalysis, blood test, and kidney biopsy. Your doctor or a special doctor called a nephrologist can help you find the ...

Now, however, the rheumatologist (or even internist) can, at many centers, request renal biopsy without the intercession of the nephrology service. Thus, lupus nephritis can be diagnosed and ...

The main purposes of renal biopsy in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus are to confirm the diagnosis of lupus nephritis, to assess disease activity and/or chronicity, guide therapeutic ...

With lupus nephritis, the kidneys aren’t functioning ... to make that diagnosis and confirm it by way of doing a kidney biopsy. That involves a patient lying on the table, and we numb the ...

Overall, 56% of participants had a lupus nephritis class change on repeat biopsy. Of patients with initial proliferative classes, 51% had no class change. Repeat kidney biopsies may help patients ...

African Americans had the highest lupus nephritis recurrence rate at 48.3% with half of cases identified via clinically indicated biopsy, Dr Gonzalez Suarez’s team reported. The glomerular ...

and lupus nephritis. They also needed to have a kidney biopsy, an elevated urine protein creatinine ratio, and an estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) greater than 45 milliliters per ...

"This funding allows us to use artificial intelligence approaches to train a 'neural network' to learn how to read and classify lupus nephritis biopsy slides." The goal of using AI to classify ...

Treatment is based on the type of lupus nephritis, which is determined by the biopsy. Since symptoms and severity vary from person to person, treatments are individually tailored to meet a person ...

Testing used in evaluating and diagnosing kidney issues include a urine test or urinalysis, blood test, and kidney biopsy. Your doctor or a special doctor called a nephrologist can help you find the ...