A novel classification for IgA nephropathy.
IgA nephropathy is a common glomerulonephritis. About 30% of patients develop end-stage kidney disease within 20 years. A strategy for predicting prognosis from biopsy-based pathological evaluation has not been well established because of lack of reproducibility and inappropriate categorization. The new Oxford classification of IgA nephropathy provides a histopathological grading system with reproducibility for prediction of renal prognosis of IgA nephropathy independent of the clinical features. The classification must be validated in the different cohorts.
Yamamoto
Ryohei
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Department of Nephrology, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan.
Imai
Enyu
E
D005919:Glomerular Filtration Rate; D005922:Glomerulonephritis, IGA / Q000145:classification* / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D012084:Renin-Angiotensin System / Q000187:drug effects / Q000502:physiology; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D014944:World Health Organization