1.Anemia feature in patients with the lupus glomerular nephritis in Bach Mai Hospital
Journal of Vietnamese Medicine 1998;231(12):90-95
The review of 125 medical records of 125 patients with lupus glomerular nephritis has shown that 82.3% of patients had erythropenia; 30.7% of patients had leucocytopenia and 7.2% of patients had thrombocytopenia. The rate of patients with anemia was significantly increased with worsen renal failure. These hematological parameters were improved after the load and maintenance treatment
Nephritis
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Anemia
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diagnosis
2.Clinical and laboratory findings of type IV lupus glomerulonephritis
Journal of Medical Research 2005;34(2):39-44
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
Lupus Nephritis, Laboratories, Diagnosis
3.Remarks on situation of acute renal failure in patients with lupus nephritis treated at Nephrology Department of Bach Mai Hospital from 1992 to 1998
Journal of Medical Research 2005;33(1):63-68
Study on 89 patients with lupus nephritis treated at Bach Mai Hospital from 1992 to 1998. 49.4% patients experienced renal failure when admitting and there was no statistical difference between age groups except to 2 age groups having the highest rate (80.0%) and the lowest rate (33.3%) of renal failure. At the mild degree of renal failure (degree II), the rate of patients with nephrotic syndrome was very high (88%). The rate of patients with nephrotic syndrome was decreased while the degree of renal failure increased. After 1 month of treatments, 38.6% of patients with renal failure had complete or partly recovery of renal function. This rate increased 75% after 2 months of treatment.
Kidney Failure
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Acute
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Lupus Nephritis
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Therapeutics