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Classifying Lupus Nephritis: An Ongoing Story
The role of the renal biopsy in lupus nephritis is to provide the diagnosis and to define the parameters of prognostic and therapeutic significance for an effective clinicopathological correlation. Various classification schemas initiated by World Health Organization in 1974 have been proposed until...
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Hindawi Publishing Corporation
2014
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4274910/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25548784 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/580620 |
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author | Kiremitci, Saba Ensari, Arzu |
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description | The role of the renal biopsy in lupus nephritis is to provide the diagnosis and to define the parameters of prognostic and therapeutic significance for an effective clinicopathological correlation. Various classification schemas initiated by World Health Organization in 1974 have been proposed until the most recent update by International Society of Nephrology/Renal Pathology Society in 2004. In this paper, we reviewed the new classification system with the associated literature to highlight the benefits and the weak points that emerged so far. The great advantage of the classification emerged to provide a uniform reporting for lupus nephritis all over the world. It has provided more reproducible results from different centers. However, the studies indicated that the presence of glomerular necrotizing lesion was no longer significant to determine the classes of lupus nephritis leading to loss of pathogenetic diversity of the classes. Another weakness of the classification that also emerged in time was the lack of discussions related to the prognostic significance of tubulointerstitial involvement which was not included in the classification. Therefore, the pathogenetic diversity of the classification still needs to be clarified by additional studies, and it needs to be improved by the inclusion of the tubulointerstitial lesions related to prognosis. |
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spelling | pubmed-42749102014-12-29 Classifying Lupus Nephritis: An Ongoing Story Kiremitci, Saba Ensari, Arzu ScientificWorldJournal Review Article The role of the renal biopsy in lupus nephritis is to provide the diagnosis and to define the parameters of prognostic and therapeutic significance for an effective clinicopathological correlation. Various classification schemas initiated by World Health Organization in 1974 have been proposed until the most recent update by International Society of Nephrology/Renal Pathology Society in 2004. In this paper, we reviewed the new classification system with the associated literature to highlight the benefits and the weak points that emerged so far. The great advantage of the classification emerged to provide a uniform reporting for lupus nephritis all over the world. It has provided more reproducible results from different centers. However, the studies indicated that the presence of glomerular necrotizing lesion was no longer significant to determine the classes of lupus nephritis leading to loss of pathogenetic diversity of the classes. Another weakness of the classification that also emerged in time was the lack of discussions related to the prognostic significance of tubulointerstitial involvement which was not included in the classification. Therefore, the pathogenetic diversity of the classification still needs to be clarified by additional studies, and it needs to be improved by the inclusion of the tubulointerstitial lesions related to prognosis. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2014 2014-12-08 /pmc/articles/PMC4274910/ /pubmed/25548784 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/580620 Text en Copyright © 2014 S. Kiremitci and A. Ensari. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Review Article Kiremitci, Saba Ensari, Arzu Classifying Lupus Nephritis: An Ongoing Story |
title | Classifying Lupus Nephritis: An Ongoing Story |
title_full | Classifying Lupus Nephritis: An Ongoing Story |
title_fullStr | Classifying Lupus Nephritis: An Ongoing Story |
title_full_unstemmed | Classifying Lupus Nephritis: An Ongoing Story |
title_short | Classifying Lupus Nephritis: An Ongoing Story |
title_sort | classifying lupus nephritis: an ongoing story |
topic | Review Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4274910/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25548784 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/580620 |
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