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 ; Acute ; Lupus Nephritis ; Therapeutics

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 ; Anemia ; diagnosis

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