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Alojzija Hočevar, Žiga Rotar, Vesna Jurčić, Saša Čučnik, Matija Tomšič, Patient age, gender and extent of purpura may suggest short-term outcomes in adults with IgA vasculitis, Rheumatology, Volume 54, Issue 7, July 2015, Pages 1330–1332, https://doi.org/10.1093/rheumatology/kev122
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Sir, IgA vasculitis (IgAV) is a small-vessel leucocytoclastic vasculitis (characterized by palpable purpura, arthralgia or arthritis, gastrointestinal (GI) and renal involvement) that is, contrary to popular belief, not uncommon [1, 2]. Our knowledge of the clinical picture of IgAV in adults currently comes mostly from observations of subgroups of IgAV patients with kidney involvement [3]. We diligently analysed the clinical picture of IgAV in an unselected cohort of adult patients and observed several potential predictors of worse outcome in these patients. This partially retrospective (1 January 2010 to 31 December 2012) and partially prospective (1 January 2013 to 31 October 2014) non-interventional study was performed at the Department of Rheumatology, University Medical Centre, Slovenia Ljubljana, which serves 1 060 000 adult residents at the tertiary level, and is the only secondary-level referral hospital in the Ljubljana region, serving 530 000 adults. Descriptive statistical methods with appropriate post hoc tests (Mann–Whitney test for metric and Fisher’s exact test for categorical variables) were used (MedCalc 14.8.1, MedCalc Software, Belgium). The study was approved by the Slovenian National Medical Ethics Committee.
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