Medium Versus High Initial Prednisone Dose for Remission Induction in Lupus Nephritis: A Propensity Score-Matched Analysis.

Objective: The existing guidelines for lupus nephritis (LN) recommend initial prednisone doses of 0.3-1.0 mg/kg/day.

Early and late effects of therapeutic plasma exchange in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus and antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody-associated vasculitis: A single-center experience.

Therapeutic plasma exchanges (TPE) is considered as one of the treatment modalities that is used in systemic autoimmune diseases. This study aimed to describe the early and late effect of TPE in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody-associated vasculitis (AAV) presented with acute kidney injury (AKI). Retrospective study comprised patients with SLE and AAV with AKI seen between January 2000 and June 2014 at King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center in Riyadh.

Ethnic Variations in Systemic Sclerosis Disease Manifestations, Internal Organ Involvement, and Mortality.

Objective: A multiethnic systemic sclerosis (SSc) cohort study to evaluate ethnic variations in disease manifestations, internal organ involvement, and survival.

Methods: Adults who fulfilled the American College of Rheumatology/European League Against Rheumatism classification criteria for SSc between 1970 and 2017 were included. Self-reported ethnicity was categorized as European-descent white, Afro-Caribbean, Hispanic, Arab, East Asian, South Asian, First Nations, or Persian.

HIV-associated nephropathy in Saudi Arabia.

Background And Objectives: Human immunodeficiency virus-associated nephropathy (HIVAN) is the most common cause of chronic renal failure in HIV patients with African descent. It usually presents with proteinuria, enlarged kidneys, and rapidly progressive renal failure, often over several weeks to months. We conducted this study to determine the prevalence of HIVAN in our HIV population.