Renal Survival in Patients with Lupus Nephritis
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- What is being studied
- This is an observational study: the protocol does not assign a study treatment.
- Who it may be relevant to
- Registry conditions: Lupus Nephritis (LN). Basic parameters: from 18 years · All.
- What needs checking
- Age, condition and sex are only basic indicators. Prior treatment, laboratory values and other mandatory requirements appear in the eligibility criteria below.
- Where it takes place
- Center list to be confirmed — check the primary protocol.
- Next step
- Save the trial, show it to the treating physician, and confirm current recruitment with the study center. Costs, documents and travel →
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Official title
Renal Survival in Patients with Lupus Nephritis in Assiut University Hospital: a Single-center Study
Overview
Systemic lupus erythematous is a chronic multifactorial autoimmune disease that affects many organs including kidney. Lupus nephritis is a common manifestation characterized by heterogeneous clinical and histopathological finding and often associate with poor progression and despite potent anti-inflammatory and immunosuppressive therapies still end in CKD or ESRD for too many patient. lupus nephritis is an immune complex GN that develop as a frequent complication of SLE. The pathogenesis of lupus nephritis involve a variety of pathogenic mechanisms, intra renal pathomechanisn of SLE related nephritis immune complex formation and classical complement pathway activation. Lupus nephritis doesn\'t develop in the absence of antinuclear antibodies. Circulating polyclonal autoantibodies bind to intrarenal nucleosomes and other autoantigen, which lead to local complement activation , cell injury and subsequent cytokine and chemokine secretion . The current management of lupus nephritis remain based on steroids, cyclophosphamide, azathioprine ,mycophenolate mefetile which are all unselective immunosuppressive drugs, these drugs have proven to be efficient in reducing lupus nephritis disease activity but the long term outcomes of lupus nephritis have not further improved during the last 30 years . Identification of renal survival is mandatory for certain purposes i.e, evaluation of efficacy of different treatment strategies among our patients and factors associated with the survival data as compared with other specialized centers.
Detailed description
Systemic lupus erythematous is a chronic multifactorial autoimmune disease that affects many organs including kidney. Lupus nephritis is a common manifestation characterized by heterogeneous clinical and histopathological finding and often associate with poor progression and despite potent anti-inflammatory and immunosuppressive therapies still end in CKD or ESRD for too many patient. lupus nephritis is an immune complex GN that develop as a frequent complication of SLE. The pathogenesis of lupus nephritis involve a variety of pathogenic mechanisms, intra renal pathomechanisn of SLE related nephritis immune complex formation and classical complement pathway activation. Lupus nephritis doesn\'t develop in the absence of antinuclear antibodies. Circulating polyclonal autoantibodies bind to intrarenal nucleosomes and other autoantigen, which lead to local complement activation , cell injury and subsequent cytokine and chemokine secretion . The current management of lupus nephritis remain based on steroids, cyclophosphamide, azathioprine ,mycophenolate mefetile which are all unselective immunosuppressive drugs, these drugs have proven to be efficient in reducing lupus nephritis disease activity but the long term outcomes of lupus nephritis have not further improved during the last 30 years . Identification of renal survival is mandatory for certain purposes i.e, evaluation of efficacy of different treatment strategies among our patients and factors associated with the survival data as compared with other specialized centers.
Primary outcome measures
- Assessment of two and five years renal survival among patients with lupus nephritis [Time frame: 2-5 years observation]
Eligibility criteria
Inclusion criteria
- Age\>18years old
- Patients with SLE as defined by EULAR/ACR criteria and lupus nephritis classification according to ISN/RPS classification.
- Available medical records for 2 and 5 years of follow up after diagnosis of lupus nephritis
Exclusion criteria
- Transplant recipients
- Pregnant females
- Patients with combined renal pathology other than LN.
- Those who had no baseline information in hospital medical records and had a follow up duration \< 24 months will be excluded
Criteria are shown verbatim from the registry (in English). Final eligibility is always assessed by the study center.
Healthy volunteers: No
Study design
- Observational model
- Cohort
Study locations
Center list to be confirmed — check the primary protocol.
Publications
- Mahajan A, Amelio J, Gairy K, Kaur G, Levy RA, Roth D, Bass D. Systemic lupus erythematosus, lupus nephritis and end-stage renal disease: a pragmatic review mapping disease severity and progression. Lupus. 2020 Aug;29(9):1011-1020. doi: 10.1177/0961203320932219. Epub 2020 Jun 22. PMID 32571142
- Aringer M. EULAR/ACR classification criteria for SLE. Semin Arthritis Rheum. 2019 Dec;49(3S):S14-S17. doi: 10.1016/j.semarthrit.2019.09.009. PMID 31779843
- Yu C, Li P, Dang X, Zhang X, Mao Y, Chen X. Lupus nephritis: new progress in diagnosis and treatment. J Autoimmun. 2022 Oct;132:102871. doi: 10.1016/j.jaut.2022.102871. Epub 2022 Aug 20. PMID 35999111
- Liu Y, Anders HJ. Lupus nephritis: from pathogenesis to targets for biologic treatment. Nephron Clin Pract. 2014;128(3-4):224-31. doi: 10.1159/000368581. Epub 2014 Nov 8. PMID 25401461
Identifiers
NCT: NCT06588192 · survival in lupus nephritis