Study findings highlight the importance of following the clinical trial vaccine administration protocol in patients receiving hemodialysis, according to investigators.
Chronic inflammation in patients with rheumatoid arthritis might cause kidney damage, according to investigators.
Fewer sudden unexpected deaths occurred among patients who received early renal replacement therapy, investigators reported.
Medicaid patients with SLE or lupus nephritis have worse outcomes compared with privately insured patients, research shows.
Older adults and individuals with diabetes did not experience a faster decline in SARS-CoV-2 antibody titers, investigators found.
In a study, approximately one-third of patients with lupus membranous nephritis tested positive for the proteins exostosin 1/exostosin 2.
Psoriasis may be another risk factor for infectious complications in patients receiving dialysis, according to investigators.
In a study, preeclampsia developed in women with LN developed 9-fold more often than women with systemic lupus erythematosus and no renal involvement.
Most patients with lupus nephritis who flared after immunosuppressant discontinuation re-achieved remission after restarting immunosuppressive therapy.
The overriding concern of vaccine-hesitant patients related to side effects, followed by doubts about the efficacy of a vaccine, and discomfort with vaccines in general, according to investigators.
