title: Highlights of the 2015 ERA-EDTA Congress--glomerular diseases.
abstract: The present paper summarizes highlights in the field of glomerular diseases presented at the 2015 European Renal Association congress in London. Topics covered include a European survey on renal biopsy practice and indications, the STOP-IgAN randomized controlled trial in patients with IgA-nephropathy, B-cell- targeting therapies in minimal change nephropathy and focal segmental glomerulosclerosis (FSGS), novel insights into the action of glucocorticosteroids in glomerular crescent and scar (FSGS) formation, the immunoproteasome in IgA-nephropathy, socio-economic factors and glomerular disease progression, glomerular CD80 (B7-1) expression in FSGS patients and aldosterone-antagonism in proteinuric renal diseases.
authors.affiliation: Department of Nephrology and Clinical Immunology, University Hospital, Rheinisch Westfälische Technische Hochschule (RWTH), Aachen, Germany.
authors.forename: Jürgen
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Floege
mesh_terms: D001706:Biopsy; D003226:Congresses as Topic; D018450:Disease Progression; D005060:Europe; D005923:Glomerulosclerosis, Focal Segmental / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006801:Humans; D007678:Kidney Glomerulus / Q000473:pathology*; D009402:Nephrosis, Lipoid / Q000175:diagnosis*
keywords: FSGS; IgA nephropathy; glomerulonephritis; kidney biopsy; minimal change disease