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National Kidney Foundation: A to Z Health Guide Item (844 words) |
 | In many parts of the world, IgA nephropathy is the most common form of glomerulonephritis--a disease that damages the tiny filtering units of the kidney, called glomeruli. |
| IgA Nephropathy is sometimes called "Berger's Disease," because a French physician named Berger was one of the first to describe the disease. |
| Even though the IgA deposits reappear in the transplanted kidney in about half the patients within one year after the operation, the signs and symptoms of the disease remain mild. |
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Iga Ueno City, Mie (1191 words) |
| Iga had managed to avoid much of the bloodshed of the long period of civil war, especially that accompanying the steady westward expansion of Oda Nobunaga. |
| The Iga Ninja, whose sect was said to have begun in the region sometime during the 12th century, managed to avoid annihilation. |
| The Iga Ueno Castle and the Ninja Yashiki Museum, profiling the Iga sect Ninjas, are both located in Ueno Park, the heart of the city's year-round tourist attractions. |
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