Hospital Medicine

Systemic lupus erythematosus

Questions discussed in this category

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?

1 Answer available

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?

4 Answers available

What is your approach to treating severe manifestations of neuropsychiatric SLE in the setting of concomitant infection?

1 Answer available

What is your approach to treatment of lupus peritonitis?

1 Answer available

Papers discussed in this category

Arthritis & rheumatology (Hoboken, N.J.), 2015-07

Mood Disorders in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus: Results From an International Inception Cohort Study.

Arthritis Rheum,

The American College of Rheumatology nomenclature and case definitions for neuropsychiatric lupus syndromes.

Lancet, 2021 May 07

Efficacy and safety of voclosporin versus placebo for lupus nephritis (AURORA 1): a double-blind, randomised, multicentre, placebo-controlled, phase 3 trial.

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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