TAILIEUCHUNG - Silent cerebral MRI findings in lupus nephritis patients: Is it clinically significant?

Lupus nephritis (LN) carries high morbidity and mortality and whenever added to neuropsychiatric manifestations lead to more unfavorable prognosis. Though silent brain MRI findings in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) had been widely studied, the current work focused on LN patients comparing them to those without kidney affection, studying their cerebral MRI and its correlation with the histopathological classes of LN and disease activity. This may enable us to know more about early brain affection in LN patients for better follow up, management, and prognosis of this serious comorbidity. Cerebral MRI and MRA were studied in 40 SLE patients without neuropsychiatric manifestations; 20 LN patients with different histopathological classes and 20 patients without kidney affection. Disease activity was assessed for all patients using SLE disease activity index (SLEDAI). Abnormal MRI brain findings were more common in LN patients ‘‘though non significant” (P = ). The most common lesions were white matter hyperintense lesions (WMHLs). Number and size of such lesions were significantly higher in LN patients ( fold that of non nephritis, P = and , respectively) and positively correlated with urea, creatinine, urinary albumin/creatinine ratio, SLEDAI, ESR, CRP, and grades of renal biopsy and negatively correlated with C3 and C4. Cortical atrophy and prepontine space dilatation were also significantly higher in LN patients (P = ). | Silent cerebral MRI findings in lupus nephritis patients: Is it clinically significant?

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• Lupus nephritis
• Asymptomatic cerebral MRI lesions
• White matter hyperintense lesions
• Silent cerebral MRI findings
• Lupus nephritis patients
• Clinically significant
• Lupus nephritis comprises
• Clinical Manifestation
• Laboratory finding
• Lupus glomerulonephritis
• International Society of Nephrology
• Renal Pathology Society classification
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• Effectiveness of treatment in patients
• Lupus nephritis after induction treatment
• Mycophenolate mofetil
• BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders
• Decision aid
• Randomized trial
• Randomized controlled trial
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