The association of 5-year therapeutic responsiveness with long-term renal outcome in IgA nephropathy

© 2022. The Author(s), under exclusive licence to The Japanese Society of Nephrology..

BACKGROUND: Immunoglobulin A nephropathy (IgAN) is the most common type of primary glomerulonephritis. Since most patients have a relatively benign renal prognosis, long-term follow-up is required. During such a long course of disease, relapse of IgAN is occasionally observed after upper respiratory tract infection or without any trigger. However, little is known about the impact of relapse on long-term renal outcomes.

METHODS: In this retrospective cohort study of biopsy-proven primary IgAN, we analyzed the association of 5-year therapeutic responsiveness (relapse) with the subsequent development of end-stage kidney disease (ESKD) using a 5-year landmark analysis (Cox model) and explored predictors of relapse from histological and clinical data at baseline.

RESULTS: Among 563 patients from the exploratory cohort, most relapses (13.7%) occurred within 5 years after treatment. Using 5-year landmark analysis, among 470 patients, 79 developed ESKD during a median follow-up period of 155 months. Even after adjustment for clinicopathological relevant confounders, hazard ratios (95% confidence intervals) in the relapse and non-responder groups compared with the remission group were 2.86 (1.41-5.79) and 2.74 (1.48-5.11), respectively. Among 250 patients who achieved remission within 5 years, proteinuria, eGFR, mesangial hypercellularity, endocapillary hypercellularity, segmental sclerosis, and crescent, but not interstitial fibrosis/tubular atrophy, were independent predictors of 5-year relapse in multivariable logistic regression analysis, CONCLUSIONS: Both relapsers and non-responders had similarly strong association with ESKD in patients with IgAN. We also confirmed the predictors of relapse 5 years after renal biopsy, which may guide the treatment strategies for patients with IgAN who occasionally relapse after remission.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2022

Erschienen:

2022

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:26

Enthalten in:

Clinical and experimental nephrology - 26(2022), 8 vom: 15. Aug., Seite 797-807

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Tsushima, Hideo [VerfasserIn]
Samejima, Ken-Ichi [VerfasserIn]
Eriguchi, Masahiro [VerfasserIn]
Uemura, Takayuki [VerfasserIn]
Tasaki, Hikari [VerfasserIn]
Fukata, Fumihiro [VerfasserIn]
Nishimoto, Masatoshi [VerfasserIn]
Kosugi, Takaaki [VerfasserIn]
Tanabe, Kaori [VerfasserIn]
Okamoto, Keisuke [VerfasserIn]
Matsui, Masaru [VerfasserIn]
Tsuruya, Kazuhiko [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

IgA nephropathy
Journal Article
Landmark analysis
Oxford classification
Relapse
Renal survival

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Date Completed 19.07.2022

Date Revised 19.07.2022

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1007/s10157-022-02221-0

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM339560657