Exacerbation of urinary abnormalities after upper respiratory tract infections in patients with IgA nephropathy was examined. Twenty patients with IgA nephropathy and fourty patients with other glomerular diseases were evaluated in this study. The incidence of exacerbation in microhematuria after upper respiratory tract infections was significantly higher in patients with IgA nephropathy than those with other glomerular diseases. The improvement of microhematuria after upper respiratory tract infections was significantly delayed in some patients with IgA nephropathy. It is indicated that upper respiratory tract infections might be a risk factor of exacerbation in patients with IgA nephropathy.
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J Dermatol Sci
December 2024
Department of Dermatology, Kurume University School of Medicine, Fukuoka, Japan.
Background: In the diagnosis of linear IgA bullous dermatosis (LABD), detection of IgA at the epidermal basement membrane zone and circulating IgA autoantibodies are essential. The disease has two subtypes, lamina lucida-type and sublamina densa-type, with 120 kDa LAD-1 and 97 kDa LABD97 as major autoantigens for lamina lucida-type. Normal human epidermal keratinocytes (NHEK) and HaCaT cells are widely used for immunoblotting (IB) in the diagnosis process, but they do not provide high sensitivity and semiquantitative analysis.
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December 2024
Department of Nephrology, General Hospital of Ningxia Medical University, Yinchuan, China.
Metabolic syndrome, a cluster of conditions including obesity, hyperglycemia, hypertension, and dyslipidemia, is increasingly recognized for its association with kidney disease. However, the impact of metabolic syndrome on the long-term prognosis of IgA nephropathy(IgAN) remains understudied. From August 2009 to December 2018, we conducted a retrospective cohort study at the Department of Nephrology, General Hospital of Ningxia Medical University, involving 698 patients with primary IgAN identified by the initial renal biopsy.
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December 2024
Kahn Sagol Maccabi Research & Innovation Center, Maccabi Healthcare Services, Tel Aviv, Israel.
Identifying which patients should undergo serologic screening for celiac disease (CD) may help diagnose patients who otherwise often experience diagnostic delays or remain undiagnosed. Using anonymized outpatient data from the electronic medical records of Maccabi Healthcare Services, we developed and evaluated five machine learning models to classify patients as at-risk for CD autoimmunity prior to first documented diagnosis or positive serum tissue transglutaminase (tTG-IgA). A train set of highly seropositive (tTG-IgA > 10X ULN) cases (n = 677) with likely CD and controls (n = 176,293) with no evidence of CD autoimmunity was used for model development.
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December 2024
From the Department of Dermatology, Nippon Medical School Chiba Hokusoh Hospital, Inzai, Japan.
Tralokinumab, an anti-IL-13 antibody, is an effective treatment for patients with atopic dermatitis (AD). However, predictive factors for responders to tralokinumab remain unclear in real-world practice. This study aimed to identify predictive factors for early and late responders to tralokinumab treatment.
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December 2024
Department of Nephrology, Ningbo Yinzhou Second Hospital, No. 998, North Qianhe Road, Yinzhou District, Ningbo City, 315000, Zhejiang Province, China.
Purpose: The study aimed to evaluate the efficacy and safety of rituximab (RTX) in primary IgA nephropathy (IgAN).
Methods: A retrospective review was conducted on the medical records of 22 patients diagnosed with primary IgAN who received RTX treatment. The clinical data, including blood tests, urine examinations and estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR), were analyzed at four time point: baseline, 3 months, 6 months and 12 months.
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