Abstracts tagged "biologic drugs and lupus nephritis"

Abstract Number: 670 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2014
Decreased Disease Activity and Corticosteroid Usage and No Renal Flares during Belimumab Treatment in Patients with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
Ioannis Parodis¹, Elisabet Svenungsson¹, Magnus Axelsson² and Iva Gunnarsson¹, ¹Department of Medicine, Rheumatology Unit, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, ²AlbaNova, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
Background/Purpose B cells have a central role in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE) and autoantibody production. B-Lymphocyte Stimulator (BLyS) is important for the activation and maintenance…