Is there a role for urinary podocyte excretion assessment in lupus nephritis?

Conclusions Podocyturia assessment, which was performed by immunofluorescence in this study, can be used as an indicator of disease activity with the advantage of being a urinary biomarker. The levels proved to be higher in patients with lupus nephritis than in the controls and were particularly higher in class IV. PMID: 26906105 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Renal Failure - Category: Urology & Nephrology Tags: Ren Fail Source Type: research