Thursday, March 20, 2008

Lupus nephritis clinical prognosis and what factors?

So far, The prognosis of lupus nephritis and ethnic origin, gender and age have not yet found a clear relationship. Most scholars believe that the large number of proteinuria with nephritis syndrome, hypertension, treatment has increased serum creatinine poor prognosis. Pathological changes and the prognosis of the closest, the type and the type generally do not develop for the end-stage renal disease; III disease activity can have development, but the response to treatment, and 5-year survival rate up to 75.8 percent; type IV disease and more Critical, but if timely and correct treatment of 5-year survival rate of 80%, 10-year survival rate 60%; V-proliferation, without apparent with the prognosis of primary membranous nephropathy, but with significantly more obvious or the hyperplastic lesions was poor prognosis, and type IV similar.

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