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Initial treatment with tonsillectomy combined with intravenous methylprednisolone pulse — another option for Japanese children with severe nephrotic IgA vasculitis with nephritis

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The Original Article was published on 11 January 2022

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The datasets of the current study are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.

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SF has received Grants-in-Aid for research from Saitama Children’s Medical Center.

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  1. Division of Nephrology, Saitama Children’s Medical Center, 1-2 Shintoshin, Chuo-ku, Saitama, 330-8777, Japan

    Shuichiro Fujinaga & Kanako Saito

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Correspondence to Shuichiro Fujinaga.

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All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the Institutional Research Committee and/or National Research Committee at which the study was conducted, with the 1964 Helsinki Declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. The ethics committee of Saitama Children’s Medical Center approved this study (approval number 2022-04-018).

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Fujinaga, S., Saito, K. Initial treatment with tonsillectomy combined with intravenous methylprednisolone pulse — another option for Japanese children with severe nephrotic IgA vasculitis with nephritis. Pediatr Nephrol 39, 1671–1672 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00467-023-06203-6

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