IgA nephropathy with severe chronic renal failure: a randomized controlled trial of corticosteroids and azathioprine.
Conclusions: Six-year renal survival was similar in the 2 groups. At Cox analysis the addition of azathioprine may be slightly more effective than corticosteroids alone in patients with chronic renal insufficiency, although with an increase of side effects.
PMID: 22460183 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Journal of Nephrology)