A team studied the differences between monogenic and nonmonogenic lupus nephritis and the predictors of end-stage kidney disease.

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.

Dr Li’s team concluded that “patients with SLE-TMA exhibit a progressive decline of patient and renal survival in the long-term. Prompt diagnosis and risk stratification based on identified risk ...

To pinpoint a target minimum duration of remission to prevent kidney damage and impaired function, Gatto and colleagues retrospectively analyzed 293 patients with biopsy-proven lupus nephritis ...

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Lupus nephritis is a serious complication of lupus — and because ... In some cases, if a urine test finds extra proteins, you may need a follow-up test called a kidney biopsy. For this test, your ...

Lupus nephritis is diagnosed by performing a kidney biopsy. A kidney biopsy is performed by inserting a thin needle through the back and into the kidney to get a sample of tissue cells to look at ...

In a phase 3, randomized, controlled trial, we assigned adults with biopsy-proven active lupus nephritis in a 1:1 ratio to receive obinutuzumab in one of two dose schedules (1000 mg on day 1 and ...

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 ...

Once we get the results, and if there’s a suspicion of lupus nephritis, then we go on to what we call a kidney biopsy that’s done to help confirm the diagnosis. The majority of the patients at ...

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 ...

“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 ...