Abstracts tagged "Azathioprine and lupus nephritis"

Abstract Number: 974 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2018
Leflunomide Versus Azathioprine for Maintenance Therapy of Lupus Nephritis: A Prospective, Multicenter, Randomized, Open-Label Clinical Trial
Qiong Fu¹, Liangjing Lu¹, Jianhua Xu², Lie Dai³, Li Zhijun⁴, Lan He⁵, Xiaochun Zhu⁶, Lingyun Sun⁷ and Chunde Bao¹, ¹Department of Rheumatology, Renji Hospital, Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China, ²Department of Rheumatism and Immunity, The First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China, ³Department of Rheumatology, Sun Yat-Sen Memorial Hospital, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China, ⁴The First Affiliated Hospital of Bengbu Medical College, Bengbu, China, ⁵Department of Rheumatology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xian, China, ⁶Rheumatology Department, The First Affiliated Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, China, ⁷the Affiliated Drum Tower Hospital of Nanjing University Medical School, Nanjing, China
Background/Purpose: Previous studies have compared mycophenolate mofetil (MMF) and azathioprine (AZA) as maintenance therapy of lupus nephritis(LN). Leflunomide(LEF) is an immunosuppressive agent widely used in…