Table 1.

Demographics of patients with isolated hematuria and/or pyuria in the absence of other systemic disease activity. Data are mean ± SD (median) or n (%).

Female28 (88)
Age at presentation, yrs42.3 ± 17.6 (40.1)
Disease duration at first episode, yrs9.7 ± 9.0 (7.9 )
Age at SLE diagnosis, yrs32.6 ± 17.5 (27.6)
Mean length of followup, yrs9.0 ± 10.9 (4.4)
Interval between the 2 consecutive visits
with hematuria4.3 ± 1.7 (3.4)
Duration of hematuria and/or pyuria (mos)8.0 ± 7.2 (5.9)
Race
  White18 (56)
  Black5 (16)
  Asian4 (13)
  Others5 (16)
Treatment at presentation
  Prednisone23 (72)
  Antimalarial18 (56)
  Immunosuppressants14 (44)
  • SLE: systemic lupus erythematosus.