Kidney biopsy is useful to diagnosis lupus nephritis and to determine the degree of inflammation and fibrosis. In some situations, in lupus patients, it is useful to distinguish whether deteriorating kidney function is due to lupus or another cause (e.g. medication).
Note: Each of these documents is described in greater detail in the âCommon Benefit Identification Cardâ section of the MEVS Provider Manual. There is a separate MEVS Provider Manual that is available to MMIS enrolled providers. This manual can be accessed/downloaded at the eMedNY website: emedny.org (click on Manuals).
Definition of:ASIC. (A pplication S pecific I ntegrated C ircuit) Pronounced  a-sick.. A chip that is custom designed for a specific application rather than a general-purpose chip such as a microprocessor.The use of ASICs improve performance over general-purpose CPUs, because ASICs are hardwired to do a specific job and do not incur the overhead of fetching and interpreting stored instructions.lso promoting the decline of full custom ASICs are chip manufacturers that make generic chips containing all the necessary functions for specific mass market products such as DVDs, CDs, digital cameras, etc. See structured ASIC, gate array, standard cell, ASSP, PLD, adaptive computing and CSIC.