In its early stages, however, the symptoms of lupus nephritis can go unnoticed. If lupus nephritis is not treated symptoms can get worse and lead to kidney failure. People experiencing serious kidney ...

More than one-third of patients with systemic lupus erythematosus experience a flare after starting dialysis for end-stage ...

With lupus nephritis, inflammation from lupus damages the kidneys and stops them from working as well. That means that they don’t filter waste and extra water out of the body the way they should. In ...

A minimum of 3 years of sustained clinical remission may protect against an increase in disease activity and the development ...

The FDA has agreed to review an application from Roche that seeks approval in the U.S. of obinutuzumab as a treatment for ...

Because RA and lupus share some common characteristics, people at the very early stages of either condition can also be misdiagnosed with one when they have the other. Once RA has progressed a bit ...

Lupus nephritis is a severe form of SLE that can lead to late-stage renal failure and require dialysis or even a kidney replacement in the most severe cases. It affects 1.7 million people ...

with up to a third of people progressing to end-stage kidney disease within 10 years, where the only options are dialysis or transplant. Lupus nephritis predominantly affects women, mostly women ...