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01-07-2021 | Tonsillectomy | Letter to the editor
Do you recommend tonsillectomy for elderly patients with IgA nephropathy?
Authors:
Tsuyoshi Takashima, Masato Mizuta, Yuki Ikeda, Makoto Fukuda, Motoaki Miyazono
Published in:
Clinical and Experimental Nephrology
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Issue 7/2021
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Excerpt
Immunoglobulin A nephropathy (IgAN) is a major cause of primary glomerulonephritis worldwide. The beneficial effects of corticosteroid therapy (CT) for IgAN were first described by Kobayashi et al. [
1], and Pozzi et al. reported steroid pulse therapy (SP) as an effective treatment regimen [
2]. Furthermore, Hotta et al. introduced tonsillectomy combined with SP therapy (TSP) [
3], and many clinical trials have subsequently analyzed its benefits, especially in Japan [
4]. …