Is Lupus Nephritis a Chronic Renal Failure

Is Lupus Nephritis a chronic renal failure? Firstly, let’s figure out what is Lupus Nephritis. Lupus Nephritis is a kind of secondary kidney disease which is caused by long time lupus, and the kidney damage mainly takes place in renal glomeruli. Lupus is a kind of self immune disease, the damage of which can spread to many organs in the body in the whole blood system. Patients with lupus usually have red spots in the face and other part, which is like the wound after wolves. The fight is also so fierce that lupus also damage seriously. In a word, when the damage which is caused by lupus spreads to kidney and cause a series of damage to the kidney, we call it Lupus Nephritis. In addition, lupus nephritis is usually seen in women, especially those with young age.
Is Lupus Nephritis a chronic renal failure? Secondly, we will explain what is renal failure. Renal failure is actually a stage of chronic kidney disease and Lupus Nephritis belongs to a kind of chronic kidney disease. Renal failure is a stage in which parenchyma is damaged, which leads to the shrink of kidney and in this case, kidney can not maintain its premise function. In clinic, retention of water, disorder of electrolyte and so on. We can also call it renal insufficiency. The advanced stage of renal failure is also called uremia.
From the above mentioned, we can get a conclusion that Lupus Nephritis is a kind of chronic kidney disease and at the advanced stage of kidney disease, Lupus Nephritis develops into renal failure. This is their relationship.
What should we do if Lupus Nephritis develops into renal failure stage? As we mentioned above, Lupus Nephritis is a kind of immune disease. The pathological substances deposit into the renal glomeruli, which leads to immune response. The immune system is out of order, so the immune response can not stop.
So to treat it, we should use immunotherapy and focus on the immune system repairing. In our Hospital, we mainly divide the immunotherapy into 6 steps: scientific treatment, immune inhibition, immune tolerance, immune adjustment, immune protection and immune clearance. In detail, it includes stem cell transplant, Chinese Medicine and some western treatment. If you are more interested in this therapy, please consult us online or email us.