background: iga nephropathy, a prevalent disease in asia, is considered the main cause of end stage renal disease among primary glomerular disease. objective: to determine the frequency of different clinical, histopathological and immunofluorescent characteristics of iga nephropathy. methods: renal biopsies of 376 patients were received for immunofluorescent and for histopathological studies. b...

Background: IgA nephropathy, a prevalent disease in Asia, is considered the main cause of end stage renal disease among primary glomerular disease. Objective: To determine the frequency of different clinical, histopathological and immunofluorescent characteristics of IgA nephropathy. Methods: Renal biopsies of 376 patients were received for immunofluorescent and for histopathological studies. B...

conclusions in issns, bone strength recovered one month after terminating stx. in igan, bone strength recovered 10 months after tapering of stx. results in issns, the bmd and s-alp levels were significantly lower in phase 1 than in phase 0; however, scores and levels returned to baseline in phase 2. in igan, bmd was significantly lower in phase 2 than in phase 0 while s-alp levels were signific...

glomerular involvement occurs as a rare form of renal manifestation in plasmodium falciparum malaria. here, we report a rare case of falciparum malaria-associated iga nephropathy. a 28-year-old man was admitted because of fever and abdominal pain. ultrasound and computed tomography (ct) showed right kidney pyonenphrosis. despite placing a nephrostomy tube, fever continued. repeated ct was in fa...

IgA nephropathy is the most common primary glomerulonephritis, but the pathogenesis of IgA nephropathy is still unclear. A 32-year-old woman was found to have IgA nephropathy and acute myeloid leukaemia. She was treated with allogenic bone marrow transplantation (BMT). After BMT, immunoflourescent staining of IgA and proteinuria disappeared. These findings suggest bone marrow cells are involved...

Membranous nephropathy is characterized clinically by nephrotic proteinuria and pathologically by the presence of electron dense IgG deposits below the epithelium in glomerular basement membrane. Although about 20–30% of cases of membranous nephropathy are secondary, the majority of cases are idiopathic. The clinical features of IgA nephropathy include haematuria and proteinuria. Although IgA n...

BACKGROUND A link between IgA nephropathy and Crohn's disease has recently been reported. Other researchers hypothesize that intestine-derived IgA complexes deposit in glomerular mesangial cells, eliciting IgA nephropathy. Intestinal mucosal plasma cells mainly secrete IgA2. Nevertheless, IgA1 deposition is strongly implicated as being the primary cause of IgA nephropathy. CASE PRESENTATION A...

We describe herein 2 patients who developed Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada syndrome in the course of renal biopsy-proven immunoglobulin A (IgA) nephropathy. A 61-year-old man with an 11-year history of IgA nephropathy and a 16-year history of thyroiditis, and a 56-year-old man with a 5-year history of IgA nephropathy developed Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada syndrome. At the time of the eye disease presentation, Ig...

Key words: FcaR; FcR c chain; IgA nephropathy; mesangial cells; physical association Background. Most intensive investigations on the pathogenesis of IgA nephropathy have focused on the process before IgA deposition and the characteristics of IgA/IgA immune complex (IgA IC), but it still Introduction remains uncertain whether mesangial IgA ICs may cause glomerular injuries directly or are only ...