PLA2R-IgG4 antibody as a predictive biomarker of treatment effectiveness and prognostic evaluation in patients with idiopathic membranous nephropathy: a retrospective study

Background The Kidney Disease Improving Global Outcomes (KDIGO) 2021 guidelines recommend Rituximab (RTX) as the first-line therapy and phospholipase A2 receptor (PLA2R) antibody as a biomarker for remission and prognosis in patients with idiopathic membranous nephropathy (IMN). Methods This study w...

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Main Authors: Yiqing Huang, Junyi Zhou, Kezhi Zhou, Biao Huang, Jing Xue, Xiran Zhang, Bin Liu, Zhijian Zhang, Leting Zhou, Ting Cai, Yi Zhang, Zhigang Hu, Liang Wang, Xiaobin Liu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: PeerJ Inc. 2022-10-01
Series:PeerJ
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Online Access:https://peerj.com/articles/14193.pdf