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01-09-2018 | Scientific Letter
Henoch Schönlein Purpura Nephritis Developing in a Child with Known IgA Nephropathy
Authors:
Aliza Mittal, Munaver Dijoo, Abha Sabhikhi, Sanjeev Gulati
Published in:
Indian Journal of Pediatrics
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Issue 9/2018
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Excerpt
To the Editor: Henoch Schönlein Purpura Nephritis (HSPN) and IgA Nephropathy (IgAN) are considered two different manifestations of the same disease. There have been reports of IgAN in biopsy specimen of patients with HSPN, and both illnesses have appeared in the same family, identical twins and even consecutively in same patient [
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