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Original article: Primary IgA nephropathy in north India: is it different?
  • Neha Mittal,
  • Kusum Joshi,
  • Swapnil Rane,
  • Ritambhra Nada,
  • Vinay Sakhuja
Postgrad Med J 2012;88:1035 15-20 Published Online First: 3 November 2011 doi:10.1136/postgradmedj-2011-130077

  1. is it showing the exact picture of igA nephropathy?

    • gopal chandra ghosh, post graduate student
    PGIMER & DR.RML HOSPITAL

    I want to highlight few points about the study.First, IgA nephropathy is seen in nearly 40% of renal biopsy specimens of acute glomerulonephritis patients in asia in various study.In this study it is comprising only 8.1% of cases.Second, it is an crossectional study, taking data from the renal biopsy report thus not showing the exact % of acute glomerulonephritis caused by IgA nephropathy.So the finding is quite exaggerated, though 10% of IgA nephropathy patient develop ESRD after 10 year & 20% after 20 years.

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    Published 20 December 2011
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