IgA and
thrombotic microangiopathy?- is there a link?
1.
They
studied over 100 patients retrospectively at a single center and looked at
biopsy findings of IgA nephropathy patients with follow up for 44 months
2.
Over
50% had TMA findings on biopsy.
3.
One
would presume most of this might be HTN related to the IgA that leads to
TMA. 4% were normotensive, 25% had controlled hypertension, and
71% had uncontrolled hypertension.
4.
The biopsies with TMA had most fibrosis and
tubular atrophy
5.
TMA with IgA nephropathy also had significant
protienuria.
6.
Renal survival was 52.2% at 44 months among the
TMA patients versus 93.5% among those without TMA (P=0.00001).
7.
IgAN-associated TMA remains a primarily
arterial/arteriolar lesion resembling like scleroderma
8.
What else besides HTN can lead to this in IgA?
Endothelial damage is what is presumed to the most likely cause.
9.
Anti-phospholipid syndrome
antibodies have also been described in IgAN. In their series, it
was no the major cause.
10. Decreased VEGF and or anti endothelial
antibodies are presumed to be other causes
11. Could this resemble some form of secondary
variant of IgA nephropathy perhaps from a virus or infection or other systemic
disease?
12. If the incidence of TMA in Ig A
nephropathy is this high, then why is this not part of the Oxford classification?
13. Other studies that have looked at
this
What can muddy the waters here is the variability in calling TMA by pathologists. It's subjective in my opinion and may be called TMA or chronic vasculopathy depending on who reads it.
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