Prognosis is usually good and most patients recover completely. A few persons do develop chronic nephritis. In this form of nephritis, kidney damage progresses over many years, during which patients are symptom free. Uremia is a poisoning caused by accumulation of waste products in the blood normally excreted by the kidney. It occurs most often as the end stage of chronic kidney disease and is characterized by drowsiness, headache, nausea, inability to sleep, spasms, and coma.
Prognosis is often poor.
By the 1960's, however, techniques as periodic dialysis to clear the blood of accumulated waste products and toxins were in place. Also, kidney transplants have offered new hope to many patients. Over time, as one has the disease, many people become more advanced in their involvement with Lupus. This advancement in disease takes place in the renal system. American Association of Kidney Patients -This is the site for patients with kidney disease.