Clinical and laboratory findings of type IV lupus glomerulonephritis
- Author:
Do Thi Lieu
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
Clinical features;
Laboratory findings;
Lupus glomerulonephritis
- MeSH:
Lupus Nephritis, Laboratories, Diagnosis
- From:Journal of Medical Research
2005;34(2):39-44
- CountryViet Nam
- Language:Vietnamese
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Abstract:
Clinical and laboratory findings was investigated on 46 patients who had diagnosis of lupus glomerulonephritis type IV. The obtained results showed that clinical features are severe with 45.7% patients had hypertension, 34.8% patients had acute nephritis syndrome and 56.5% had nephrotic syndrome. Especially, there were 95.7% patients have renal insufficiency. Among them, 26.1% had a severe renal failure (blood creatinine level >300mmol/I). But after 1 month of treatment, 100% of renal insufficiency patients have blood creatinine level < 300mmol/l and 72.8% of renal failure patients who had creatinine level > 300mmol/l had improvement in renal function
