Literature Highlights – May 2020

Over a course of 46 years, clinical presentation of lupus nephritis (LN) has become less severe in the last years, leading to a better long-term renal survival: The indispensable role of renal biopsy and the need for a low-threshold to perform renal biopsy

Comment on: Changing patterns in clinical–histological presentation and renal outcome over the last five decades in a cohort of 499 patients with lupus nephritis.Moroni G, Vercelloni PG, Quaglini S, et al Ann Rheum Dis. 2018 Sep;77(9):1318-1325. doi: 10.1136/annrheumdis-2017-212732. Epub 2018 May 5. Commented by: Dimitrios T. Boumpas, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece … Read more

Trial in Anifrolumab in Active Systemic Lupus Erythematosus

Comment on: ”Trial in Anifrolumab in Active Systemic Lupus Erythematosus” by E.F Morand, R. Furie, Y. Tanaka I.N:Bruce, A.D Askanase, C Riches, S-C Bae, P.Z Brohawn, L Pindea, A Berglind and R Tummala for the TULIP-2 Investigators. Published in NEJM 2020; 382:211-21 Commented by: Elisabet Svenungsson, Karolinska University Hospital, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden Background: We … Read more