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Correspondence on ‘Call for action in ANCA-associated vasculitis and lupus nephritis: promises and challenges of SGLT-2 inhibitors’
  1. Dimitrios Patoulias
  1. Second Propedeutic Department of Internal Medicine, Aristoteleio Panepistemio Thessalonikes, Thessaloniki, Greece
  1. Correspondence to Dr Dimitrios Patoulias, Second Propedeutic Department of Internal Medicine, Aristoteleio Panepistemio Thessalonikes, 54642 Thessaloniki, Greece; dipatoulias{at}gmail.com

https://doi.org/10.1136/annrheumdis-2021-221953

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    Säemann and Kronbichler provided in their published article an excellent perspective on the potential place of sodium–glucose cotransporter-2 (SGLT-2) inhibitors in the treatment armamentarium against antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies (ANCA)-associated vasculitis and lupus nephritis (LN).1 Besides the described mechanisms of action, it seems that their effect against tubular damage and atrophy could also be crucial for the mediated nephroprotection in LN. It has been …

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    • Contributors DP wrote the draft.

    • Funding The author has not declared a specific grant for this research from any funding agency in the public, commercial or not-for-profit sectors.

    • Competing interests None declared.

    • Patient and public involvement Patients and/or the public were not involved in the design, or conduct, or reporting, or dissemination plans of this research.

    • Provenance and peer review Commissioned; internally peer reviewed.

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