Factors related to renal cortical atrophy development after glucocorticoid therapy in IgG4-related kidney disease: a retrospective multicenter study.

Ichiro MizushimaMotohisa YamamotoDai InoueShinichi NishiYoshinori TaniguchiYoshifumi UbaraShoko MatsuiTetsuhiko YasunoHitoshi NakashimaHiroki TakahashiKazunori YamadaHideki NomuraMasakazu YamagishiTakao SaitoMitsuhiro Kawano

Published in: Arthritis research & therapy (2016)

This study suggests that pre-treatment renal insufficiency and serum IgE elevation predict renal atrophy development after glucocorticoid therapy in IgG4-RKD.

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