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Natural History and Prognosis

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IgA Nephropathy

Part of the book series: Topics in Renal Medicine ((TIRM,volume 2))

Abstract

Our knowledge of the natural history of idiopathic IgA mesangial nephropathy is still incomplete for two major reasons: (a) the disease has been characterized and recognized as a distinct clinical and pathologic entity only in these last 15 years, with the worldwide application of immunofluorescence microscopy to renal biopsies, and therefore clinical data from long-term observations of large series of patients are still scarce; and (b) for the subgroup of patients whose disease is discovered by chance because of asymptomatic urinary abnormalities, it is impossible to identify the time of onset.

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D’amico, G. (1987). Natural History and Prognosis. In: Clarkson, A.R. (eds) IgA Nephropathy. Topics in Renal Medicine, vol 2. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-2039-5_8

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