Pathologic Predictors of Renal Outcome and Therapeutic Efficacy in IgA Nephropathy
- 1 September 2011
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) in Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology
- Vol. 6 (9), 2175-2184
- https://doi.org/10.2215/cjn.11521210
Abstract
Background and objectives The Oxford classification of IgA nephropathy (IgAN) may aid in predicting prognosis and providing therapeutic strategy but must be validated in different ancestry. Design, setting, participants, & measurements A total of 410 patients with IgAN, enrolled from one of the largest renal centers in China, were evaluated for the predictive value of the Oxford classification to prognosis defined as end stage renal disease. A total of 294 of these patients were prospectively treated with renin-angiotensin system blockade and immunosuppressants sequentially and were evaluated separately to assess the predictive value to therapeutic efficacy (defined as time-averaged proteinuria 25% of glomeruli with endocapillary hypercellularity showed higher proteinuria, lower estimated GFR, and higher mean BP than patients with less endocapillary hypercellularity. Immunosuppressive therapy showed a protective effect to prognosis of endocapillary hypercellularity in patients with endoncapillary hypercellularity could benefit from immunosuppressive therapy. Mesangial hypercellularity and tubular atrophy and interstitial fibrosis were independent factors of inefficiency of renin-angiotensin system blockade alone. Crescents were not significant in predicting prognosis or in therapeutic efficacy. Conclusions The Oxford classification may aid in predicting prognosis and providing a therapeutic strategy in Chinese patients with IgAN.This publication has 22 references indexed in Scilit:
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