Hospital Medicine

Lupus nephritis

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How would you manage a patient with CKD4 due to lupus nephritis of unknown class who develops AKI requiring hemodialysis and nephrotic range proteinuria and is found to have atrophic kidneys on imaging?

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Do you hospitalize patients with newly diagnosed lupus nephritis and nephrotic syndrome if you are able to provide pulse steroids outpatient and follow them closely?

When do you decide to hospitalize?

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How would you approach the treatment of a patient who, during a hospitalization, was initially diagnosed with TTP and treated with PLEX with good response, but renal biopsy then resulted class IV LN along with changes of thrombotic microangiopathy?

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The New England journal of medicine, 2019-01-24

Caplacizumab Treatment for Acquired Thrombotic Thrombocytopenic Purpura.

N Engl J Med, 2022 Dec 22

Recombinant ADAMTS13 for Hereditary Thrombotic Thrombocytopenic Purpura.

Saudi journal of kidney diseases and transplantation : an official publication of the Saudi Center for Organ Transplantation, Saudi Arabia, 2017 Mar-Apr

Biopsy of small kidneys: A safe and a useful guide to potentially treatable kidney disease.

Clinical journal of the American Society of Nephrology : CJASN, 2017 May 04

Clinical and Histopathologic Characteristics Associated with Renal Outcomes in Lupus Nephritis.

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