Friday, April 4, 2008

Lupus nephritis clinical prognosis and what are the factors?

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

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