Systemic lupus erythematosus is usually to be seen to affect the women in childbearing period, the male-female ratio is 1: (7-9.5). SLE is the systemic disease. Not only the kidneys also other organs can be damaged by SLE.
The clinical manifestations of Lupus Nephritis vary a lot. It could be asymptomatic proteinuria and/or blood in urine, high blood pressure, also Nephrotic Syndrome.
Proteinuria is the most common clinical manifestation of Lupus Nephritis, about 25% of patients present Nephrotic Syndrome. Microscopic hematuria is more common, compared to gross hematuria. Some patients can also have leucocyturia and cylindruria. The amount of leucocyturia and cylindruria can reflect the activity of the kidney lesions to some extent. A minority of Lupus Nephritis patients can have kidney tubules dysfunction, and present renal tubular acidosis and disturbance of potassium metabolism. 15%-50% of Lupus Nephritis patients have high blood pressure and impairment of kidney.
As to the treatment for Lupus Nephritis, we need to repair the damaged kidneys and rebuild the abnormal immune system of human body. Immunotherapy is the treatment we would like to recommend to Lupus Nephritis patients.
Blood purification techniques will be used to clean the blood, as there are much toxic substances in the blood. Please note that nearly all the Lupus Nephritis patients are treated by dialysis in many other countries. However, dialysis has its limitation, it can not eliminate the macromolecular toxins in the blood.
Chinese herbal medicine is used to repair the damaged kidneys and rebuild the immune system of human body. It can achieve the purpose which western medicine can not achieve. You can leave us a message to get more information about Immunotherapy.
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