scholarly journals PETANDA BIOLOGIK TERKINI LUPUS NEFRITIS

Author(s):  
Hani Susianti ◽  
Kusworini Handono

Lupus Nephritis (LN) is one of the serious clinical manifestation of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE). Early detection and treatmentof renal activity may spare patients from renal damage. Conventional biomarkers such as urine sediment, proteinuria, creatinine, antidsDNA antibody and their complement levels are not specific and sensitive enough in detecting the ongoing disease activity in the lupuskidneys and early relapse of nephritis. Renal biopsy is the gold standard in providing information on the histopathology of LN, but isinvasive and it should take a serial of biopsies making it impractical when monitoring LN. Thus, some novel biomarkers are necessary toenhance the diagnostic accuracy and sensitivity of lupus renal disease, prognostic stratification, monitoring of treatment response anddetection of early renal flares as well. Some novel biomarkers have been studied in LN, however, validation on a large scale of patientswith different ethnic backgrounds is still needed.

Lupus ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 096120332097905
Author(s):  
Luis Alonso González ◽  
Manuel Francisco Ugarte-Gil ◽  
Graciela S Alarcón

During the last decades, there has been an increased interest in the discovery and validation of biomarkers that reliably reflect specific aspects of lupus. Although many biomarkers have been developed, few of them have been validated and used in clinical practice, but with unsatisfactory performances. Thus, there is still a need to rigorously validate many of these novel promising biomarkers in large-scale longitudinal studies and also identify better biomarkers not only for lupus diagnosis but also for monitoring and predicting upcoming flares and response to treatment. Besides serological biomarkers, urinary and cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers have emerged for assessing both renal and central nervous system involvement in systemic lupus erythematosus, respectively. Also, novel omics techniques help us to understand the molecular basis of the disease and also allow the identification of novel biomarkers which may be potentially useful for guiding new therapeutic targets.


RMD Open ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. e001299
Author(s):  
Cristina Reátegui-Sokolova ◽  
Manuel F Ugarte-Gil ◽  
Guillermina B Harvey ◽  
Daniel Wojdyla ◽  
Guillermo J Pons-Estel ◽  
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AimA decrease in proteinuria has been considered protective from renal damage in lupus nephritis (LN), but a cut-off point has yet to be established. The aim of this study was to identify the predictors of renal damage in patients with LN and to determine the best cut-off point for a decrease in proteinuria.MethodsWe included patients with LN defined clinically or histologically. Possible predictors of renal damage at the time of LN diagnosis were examined: proteinuria, low complement, anti-double-stranded DNA antibodies, red cell casts, creatinine level, hypertension, renal activity (assessed by the Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Disease Activity Index (SLEDAI)), prednisone dose, immunosuppressive drugs and antimalarial use. Sociodemographic variables were included at baseline. Proteinuria was assessed at baseline and at 12 months, to determine if early response (proteinuria <0.8 g/day within 12 months since LN diagnosis) is protective of renal damage occurrence. Renal damage was defined as an increase of one or more points in the renal domain of The Systemic Lupus International Collaborating Clinics (SLICC)/American College of Rheumatology (ACR) Damage Index (SDI). Cox regression models using a backward selection method were performed.ResultsFive hundred and two patients with systemic lupus erythematosus patients were included; 120 patients (23.9%) accrued renal damage during their follow-up. Early response to treatment (HR=0.58), antimalarial use (HR=0.54) and a high SES (HR=0.25) were protective of renal damage occurrence, whereas male gender (HR=1.83), hypertension (HR=1.86) and the renal component of the SLEDAI (HR=2.02) were risk factors for its occurrence.ConclusionsEarly response, antimalarial use and high SES were protective of renal damage, while male gender, hypertension and higher renal activity were risk factors for its occurrence in patients with LN.


2016 ◽  
Vol 75 (Suppl 2) ◽  
pp. 1057.3-1057
Author(s):  
C. Reátegui-Sokolova ◽  
M. Ugarte-Gil ◽  
R. Gamboa-Cardenas ◽  
F. Zevallos ◽  
J.M. Cucho-Venegas ◽  
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2020 ◽  
pp. annrheumdis-2020-219209
Author(s):  
Xianyong Yin ◽  
Kwangwoo Kim ◽  
Hiroyuki Suetsugu ◽  
So-Young Bang ◽  
Leilei Wen ◽  
...  

ObjectiveSystemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), an autoimmune disorder, has been associated with nearly 100 susceptibility loci. Nevertheless, these loci only partially explain SLE heritability and their putative causal variants are rarely prioritised, which make challenging to elucidate disease biology. To detect new SLE loci and causal variants, we performed the largest genome-wide meta-analysis for SLE in East Asian populations.MethodsWe newly genotyped 10 029 SLE cases and 180 167 controls and subsequently meta-analysed them jointly with 3348 SLE cases and 14 826 controls from published studies in East Asians. We further applied a Bayesian statistical approach to localise the putative causal variants for SLE associations.ResultsWe identified 113 genetic regions including 46 novel loci at genome-wide significance (p<5×10−8). Conditional analysis detected 233 association signals within these loci, which suggest widespread allelic heterogeneity. We detected genome-wide associations at six new missense variants. Bayesian statistical fine-mapping analysis prioritised the putative causal variants to a small set of variants (95% credible set size ≤10) for 28 association signals. We identified 110 putative causal variants with posterior probabilities ≥0.1 for 57 SLE loci, among which we prioritised 10 most likely putative causal variants (posterior probability ≥0.8). Linkage disequilibrium score regression detected genetic correlations for SLE with albumin/globulin ratio (rg=−0.242) and non-albumin protein (rg=0.238).ConclusionThis study reiterates the power of large-scale genome-wide meta-analysis for novel genetic discovery. These findings shed light on genetic and biological understandings of SLE.


2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 ◽  
pp. 1-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amal H. Uzrail ◽  
Areej M. Assaf ◽  
Shtaywy S. Abdalla

Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is characterized by systemic end-organ damage. We investigated the involvement of IRF5, TLR-7, MECP2, STAT4, and TNFSF4 genes and TNF-α, IFN-γ, IL-2, IL-12, IL-6, and IL-10 cytokines in SLE pathogenesis and in organ damage in Jordanian patients. Blood was collected from 51 patients and 50 controls. Expression levels of SLE genes in PBMCs and cytokine levels were determined using RT-PCR and ELISA, respectively. Expression levels of all genes and levels of TNF-α, IL-12, IL-6, and IL-10 were higher in SLE patients than those in controls (p<0.05), whereas IL-2 level was lower. High STAT4 (α), TNFSF4, and IL-10 levels correlated with cardiovascular damage, and high MECP2 (α) and TNF-α correlated with renal damage. Pulmonary and musculoskeletal damages correlated with high levels of TNFSF4. We concluded that STAT4 and TNFSF4 genes with TNF-α and IL-10 cytokines could be used as biomarkers to assess SLE activity and manage treatment.


2012 ◽  
Vol 64 (9) ◽  
pp. 2947-2952 ◽  
Author(s):  
Corinna E. Weckerle ◽  
Dorothy Mangale ◽  
Beverly S. Franek ◽  
Jennifer A. Kelly ◽  
Marissa Kumabe ◽  
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2017 ◽  
Vol 188 (1) ◽  
pp. 79-85 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Koutsonikoli ◽  
M. Trachana ◽  
E. Farmaki ◽  
V. Tzimouli ◽  
P. Pratsidou-Gertsi ◽  
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