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Twitter Poll (April 9, 2020)

By Vanessa Moreno, MD

Apr 10, 2020

IgA Nephropathy in IBD Patients

ANSWER: C

In one of the largest cases series by Ambruz et al., IgA nephropathy (IgAN) was the most common diagnosis (24%) observed in patients with IBD, followed by interstitial nephritis (19%), arterionephrosclerosis (12%), ATI (8%), proliferative GN (7%) and minimal change disease (5%).

 

References:

  1. Ambruzs JM, Walker PD and Larsen CP. The Histopathologic Spectrum of Kidney Biopsies in Patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease. Clin J Am Soc Nephrol 2014; 9:265-270.
  2. Ambruzs JM, Larsen CP. Renal Manifestations of Inflammatory Bowel Disease. Rheum Dis Clin N Am 2018; 44 (4):699-714

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