The Clinical Symptoms to Detect the Lupus Nephritis

The appearance of immunosuppressants contributes to a better therapeutic effect as well as its prognosis for lupus nephritis patients. Other than lab tests being done in clinics or hospitals, the patients could also recognize and detect the disease by its symptoms.
Clinical symptoms include the signs of SLE and Lupus Nephritis since sometimes it is hard to tell them apart.
Lupus attacks, more often than not, in those who are pregnant. It is a systemic disease which could possibly get kidney involved. Symptoms of Lupus Nephritis are:
Asymptomatic proteinuria (protein in urine) or hematuria (blood in urine) may develop in some of the patients with LN.
High blood pressure can also attack as a result of the disease due to kidney damages. Other symptoms include nephrotic syndrome, acute nephritic syndrome and rapid progressive nephritic syndrome etc.
Proteinuria becomes one of the most commonly seen symptoms in clinic. About 25% of LN patients suffer from Nephrotic Syndrome and usually accompanied with microscopic hematuria. Compared with microscopic blood in urine, gross hematuria has a pretty low incidence, like 6.4%. Other than those signs, parts of the patients show up leucocyturia or cylindruia (also known as urine casts) sometimes. The amount of hematuria, leucocyturia or urine casts reflect the activity of kidney problems. A small number of patients with LN even develop renal tubular dysfunction presenting as renal tubular acidosis or disturbance of potassium metabolism.
15%-50% of Lupus Nephritis patients also develop high blood pressure together with kidney impairments. In some serious cases, oliguria and hypertension as well as progressive declined kidney function attack.
Other than kidney damages, signs of lupus can present:
Systemic fever, discomfort, fatigue or loss of appetite
Butterfly or discoid rash showing up in patients’ faces
Muscle ache, joint pain or arthritis etc.
Pericarditis or pleuritis
Anemia
Persistent headache, cognitive disorder, coma, seizure or cardiovascular problems

Patients could recognize Lupus Nephritis from those signs or symptoms. If you happen to a lupus patient, do monitor your kidney health since SLE could easily get kidney or other vital organs involved.
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