Objective Lupus nephritis (LN) is a major cause of morbidity and mortality, affecting up to 60% of patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). The perspectives of patients with SLE have been ...

Objective Lupus nephritis (LN) is a major complication and cause of death among patients with SLE. This research used in vivo and in vitro experiments to explore the therapeutic potential of metformin ...

Objective Many autoantibodies are known to be associated with SLE, although their role in clinical practice is limited because of low sensitivity and weak associations with clinical manifestations.

Objective The objectives of this study were to compare the clinical features of patients with SLE with and without myopathy and to describe the muscle biopsy features of patients with SLE myopathy.

Objective Determine the pharmacokinetics (PK) and exposure–response of hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) and desethylhydroxychloroquine (DHCQ) in paediatric SLE (pSLE). Methods We conducted an exploratory ...

Background The short-term and long-term outcome of inflammatory neuropsychiatric SLE (NPSLE) with immunosuppressive treatment is largely unknown. We used clinical data from our tertiary referral ...

4 Department of Preventive Medicine, Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, USA Background/objective Patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) are at increased risk for adverse ...

Objective Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a complex systemic autoimmune disorder with no reliable serum biomarkers currently available other than autoantibodies. Methods In the present study, ...

1 Beijing Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Capital Medical University, Beijing Institute of Chinese Medicine, Beijing, China Objective Celastrol is a bioactive constituent extracted from ...

Objective To identify fixed and time-varying predictors of incident proteinuria. Methods This analysis was based on patients who did not have a history of diabetes and who did not have a prior episode ...

Introduction Treatment failures for lupus nephritis (LN) are high with 10%–30% of patients progressing to end-stage renal disease (ESRD) within 10 years. Interstitial fibrosis/tubular atrophy (IFTA) ...

1 Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine Ramathibodi Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand 3 Division of Reproductive Health and Family Planning, ...