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Combination of pulse cyclophosphamide and steroids in crescentic IgA nephropathy

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Authors including Ramachandran R, Doddi P, Nandakrishna B, Nada R, Rathi M, Kohli HS, Jha V, Sakhuja V, Gupta KL have no conflict of interest to declare.

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The study was approved by the Institute Ethics Committee. All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.

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A written informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.

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R. Ramachandran, P. Doddi and B. Nandakrishna equally contributed as first author.

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Ramachandran, R., Doddi, P., Nandakrishna, B. et al. Combination of pulse cyclophosphamide and steroids in crescentic IgA nephropathy. Int Urol Nephrol 47, 1917–1918 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11255-015-1076-z

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