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Temporal change in life and renal prognosis of rapidly progressive glomerulonephritis in Japan via nationwide questionnaire survey

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  • 27 July 2020

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Acknowledgements

We offer our thanks to the following members of RPGN Working Group of Research Committee of Intractable Renal Disease of the Ministry of Health, Labour, and Welfare of Japan: Dr. Shinya Kaname, Dr. Tatsuo Tsukumoto, Dr. Eri Muso, Dr. Kousaku Nitta, Dr. Takashi Wada, Dr. Yoshio Taguma, Dr. Masaki Kobayashi, Dr. Junichiro Nakata, Dr. Takashi Yokoo, Dr. Tetsuya Kawamura, Dr. Yukio Yuzawa, Dr. Kouichi Asahi, Dr. Hitoshi Nakashima, Dr. Shouichi Fujimoto, Dr. Shinji Hirawa, Dr. Tomo Suzuki, Dr. Wako Yumura, Dr. Takashi Ito, Dr. Kazuhiko Tsuruya, Dr. Masaharu Yoshida, Dr. Masayuki Iwano, Dr. Naotake Tsuboi, Dr. Ken-ei Sada, Dr. Yasunori Iwata, Dr. Ryohei Kaseda, Dr. Shuzo Kaneko, Dr. Seiichi Matsuo, Dr. Naoto Yamaguchi, and Dr. Akio Koyama. In addition, we also thank the nationwide investigators and institutions that participated in this survey. We also appreciate Ms. Yuko Sudo and Ms. Keiko Fujioka for their guidance in manuscript preparation. This work was supported by grants from Research Committee of Intractable Renal Disease of the Ministry of Health, Labour, and Welfare of Japan.

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  1. Department of Nephrology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tsukuba, 1-1-1 Tennodai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-8575, Japan

    Kunihiro Yamagata & Joichi Usui

  2. Department of Human Resource Development of Dialysis Therapy for Kidney Disease, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama, Japan

    Hitoshi Sugiyama

  3. Department of Nephrology, Internal Medicine, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan

    Shoichi Maruyama

  4. Division of Clinical Nephrology and Rheumatology, Niigata University Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Niigata, Japan

    Ichiei Narita

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Yamagata, K., Usui, J., Sugiyama, H. et al. Temporal change in life and renal prognosis of rapidly progressive glomerulonephritis in Japan via nationwide questionnaire survey. Clin Exp Nephrol 23, 573–575 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10157-018-1663-2

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