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... that IgA was co-deposited with MBL in about 25% of patients and that MBL deposition showed more severe renal disease as compared with MBL- negative cases, suggesting an important role for MBL in disease ... See full document

... IgA nephropathy patients were eligible for the study when the following criteria were satisfied: having received steroids therapy; age >18 years; follow-up dura- tion >36 ...received ... See full document

... present study. To be noticed, besides steroids and MMF, omega-3 fatty acid which was proven to be effective in treating IgAN [29] was also used in the RCT from mixed races ... See full document

... as steroids or immunosuppressive agents according to the KDIGO guidelines ...Oxford study nor its largest validation study, the VALIGA study, found an association between crescents and the ... See full document

... this study is that it was a retrospective study with a short follow-up ...retrospective study, the selection bias between patients chosen to receive steroids with or without immunosup- ... See full document

... International treatment guidelines, supported by multi- center clinical trials, advocate high-quality supportive care, including RAS blockers and carefully titrated blood pressure control. Steroids and further ... See full document

... this study are better than those reported in most other ...this study were admitted with recurrent macroscopic hematuria, which was found to have a good ...this study has shown that histopathological ... See full document

... page 6 for MMF step reductions in dosage), 9) administra- tion of a live viral vaccine, 10) patient/parent withdrawal of consent to participate, 11) patient moving out of the area to a location with participating center ... See full document

... Analyses were performed using Review Manager 5.1. The results of dichotomous outcomes (therapeutic ef- fects, ESRD events, doubling Scr increases and adverse reaction) were expressed as risk ratios (RR) with 95% ... See full document

... Nakamoto et al. [7] reviewed 52 cases of Japanese patients with nephropathy. All patients manifested four or all of the five signs of POEMS. Polyneuropathy was present in all but one patient. A majority of cases ... See full document

... this study suggested that kidney biopsies should only be performed if knowledge of renal histology may lead to therapeutic intervention that would enable preg- nancy to progress to fetal ... See full document

... present study, the immunofluorescence stain- ing showed granular positive IgG along the capillary loop, while IgA was shown to be irregularly positive in the mesangial ...and IgA in the complication ... See full document

... A nephropathy (IgAN), which was ini- tially described by Berger and Hinglais in 1968 [1], is the most common type of primary glomerulonephritis worldwide [2–4], especially in the Asia-Pacific region [2, 5, ... See full document

... none of which were globally sclerosed. The mesangium showed rare mild increase in matrix with mild hypercellularity. There was less than 3% early interstitial fibrosis and a few patches of tubular atrophy. The arterioles ... See full document

... present study, we used the Axiom™ Genome-Wide Human Assay and found two SNPs with suggestive evidence for association with IgAN in the first stage (p ≤ 5 × 10 − 5 ...One study showed that ANKRD16 is ... See full document

... Astragalus mongholicus (AM) derived from the dry root of Astragalus membranaceus, which belongs to leguminous plant of the Astragalus family, is one of the most popular traditional Chinese medicines. AM is composed of ... See full document

... Female Sprague–Dawley (SD) rats, weighted 150–200 gram, were used in this study. The rats were maintained under a 12 hour light/dark cycle at a constant temperature (22 ± 1°C), with free access to clean water and ... See full document

... present study, we inferred that IgA1 molecules from IgAN patients could promote sVCAM-1 expression of endothelial cells for the follo- wing three evidences: (1) the same amount of IgA1 from IgAN patients showed a ... See full document

... Data were abstracted from clinical and study records and imported into SPSS ver. 22 (IBM Corp, Armonk NY). Continuous data are reported as means (SD); categorical data as counts (%). Analysis of variance or ... See full document

... Case presentation: A 39-year-old man with cystic fibrosis (CF) and CF-related diabetes started to present gross hematuria, back pain and headache. At admission, laboratory analysis showed increase in serum creatinine of ... See full document