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November 27, 2025 75 mins

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Joel Topf‍ ‍@kidneyboy.bsky.social‬ (COI)

Sophia Ambruso @sophia-kidney.bsky.social

Swapnil Hiremath @hswapnil.medsky.social and on LinkedIn

Special Guests

Jonathan Barratt Professor of Renal Medicine, University of Leicester Google Scholar (COI: all the companies)

Editing and Show Notes by

Nayan Arora @captainchloride.bsky.social

The Kidney Connection written and performed by Tim Yau

Show Notes

Proteinuria Reduction as a Surrogate End Point in Trials of IgA Nephropathy (Aliza Thompson, 2019 PubMed)

The number, quality, and coverage of randomized controlled trials in nephrology (PubMed 2004)

Updated here (PubMed | NephJC discussion)

A Randomized, Controlled Trial of Rituximab in IgA Nephropathy with Proteinuria and Renal Dysfunction (PubMed 2017)

BLISS Belimumab in lupus nephritis (NephJC | PubMed)

The Phase 2 trial of atacicept A phase 2b, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, clinical trial of atacicept for treatment of IgA nephropathy (PubMed)

The phase 3 trial of atacicept, the subject of this podcast A Phase 3 Trial of Atacicept in Patients with IgA Nephropathy (PubMed | NephJC)

Christos’ Bluesky post:

https://bsky.app/profile/christosargyrop.bsky.social/post/3m5bsujwg3s2q

The use of Gd-IgA1 in the Testing Trial Role of Systemic Glucocorticoids in Reducing IgA and Galactose-Deficient IgA1 Levels in IgA Nephropathy (PubMed)

If you can’t get enough Jon Barratt, take a look at his grand rounds at The University of Ottawa. Updates to the KDIGO Guidelines for the treatment of IgA nephropathy, with Prof Jonathan Barratt (YouTube)

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