Renal protection in immunoglobulin-A nephropathy
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Renal protection in immunoglobulin-A nephropathy.
Sir, I applaud the timely reminder by Nagy et al. [1] that good control of hypertension can do much to ameliorate the course of immunoglobulin-A nephropathy. There are some good antiproliferative agents coming along. Only I wish to point out that we have forgotten [2] the potential of anti-thromboxanes [3], which will surely be synergistic to angiotensin-converting enzyme or angiotensin-recepto...
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عنوان ژورنال: Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation
سال: 2005
ISSN: 1460-2385,0931-0509
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfi260