Japanese clinical practice patterns of rituximab treatment for minimal change disease in adults 2021: A web-based questionnaire survey of certified nephrologists

• Masahiro Koizumi ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Masahiro Koizumi, Takuji Ishimoto

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Nephrology, Endocrinology and Metabolism, Tokai University School of Medicine, Kanagawa, Japan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5830-5785

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• Takuji Ishimoto ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Masahiro Koizumi, Takuji Ishimoto

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Nephrology and Rheumatology, Aichi Medical University, Aichi, Japan

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• Sayaka Shimizu ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: ssayaka.tkshm@gmail.com

  Affiliations Section of Clinical Epidemiology, Department of Community Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, Patient Driven Academic League (PeDAL), Tokyo, Japan, Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Graduate School of Medicine, Fukushima Medical University, Fukushima, Japan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9283-144X

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• Sho Sasaki,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Section of Education for Clinical Research, Kyoto University Hospital, Kyoto, Japan, Center for Innovative Research for Communities and Clinical Excellence, Fukushima Medical University, Fukushima, Japan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6744-5931

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• Noriaki Kurita ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ NK and TW also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliations Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Graduate School of Medicine, Fukushima Medical University, Fukushima, Japan, Department of Innovative Research and Education for Clinicians and Trainees (DiRECT), Fukushima Medical University Hospital, Fukushima, Japan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4127-7500

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• Takehiko Wada

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ NK and TW also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Nephrology, Toranomon Hospital, Tokyo, Japan

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