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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]; Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Dildar Hussain, MBBS [2]

Overview

The mainstay of treatment for IgA nephropathy is medical therapy. Tonsillectomy is usually reserved for patients with recurrent infections and renal transplant in patients with ESRD due to IgA nephropathy and renal transplantation in patients with ESRD due to IgA nephropathy.

Indications

  • The mainstay of treatment for IgA nephropathy is medical therapy. Surgery is usually reserved for patients with either:[1][2][3]

Surgery

  • The mainstay of treatment for IgA nephropathy is medical therapy. Tonsillectomy is usually reserved for patients with IgA nephropathy and recurrent infections.[1][2]
  • Renal transplant is performed in patients with ESRD due to IgA nephropathy. [3]


References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Béné MC, Hurault de Ligny B, Kessler M, Foliguet B, Faure GC (1993). "Tonsils in IgA nephropathy". Contrib Nephrol. 104: 153–61. PMID 8325026.
  2. 2.0 2.1 Nagasawa Y, Iio K, Fukuda S, Date Y, Iwatani H, Yamamoto R, Horii A, Inohara H, Imai E, Nakanishi T, Ohno H, Rakugi H, Isaka Y (2014). "Periodontal disease bacteria specific to tonsil in IgA nephropathy patients predicts the remission by the treatment". PLoS ONE. 9 (1): e81636. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0081636. PMC 3904818. PMID 24489644.
  3. 3.0 3.1 Odum J, Peh CA, Clarkson AR, Bannister KM, Seymour AE, Gillis D, Thomas AC, Mathew TH, Woodroffe AJ (1994). "Recurrent mesangial IgA nephritis following renal transplantation". Nephrol. Dial. Transplant. 9 (3): 309–12. PMID 8052439.

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