Clinicopathological correlations of renal pathology: A single center experience

To evaluate the clinicopathological correlation of renal pathology and outline the frequencies of different renal diseases, beside assessment of lupus nephritis (LN), we studied 150 patients [72 (48%) males and mean age of 33.82 ± 15.4 years] who were subjected to native renal biopsy; 112 (72.8%) biopsied patients were diagnosed to have glomerulonephritis (GN). The most frequent clinical renal syndrome was nephrotic syndrome found in 55 (36.6%) patients, followed by nephritic syndrome in 38 (25.3%) patients, chronic kidney disease in 28 (18.6%) patients, acute kidney injury (AKI) in 17 (11.3 %) patients, and subnephrotic proteinuria (SNP) in 12 (8%) patients. Focal segmental glomerulosclerosis (FSGS) was the most common patterns in primary GN (16.6%), LN was the most common pathology in secondary GN (33.3%). LN represented 18.1% of nephrotic syndrome, 68.3% of nephritic syndrome, 35.2% of AKI, and 58% of SNP. FSGS was the most common pattern in obese patients (58%), membranoproliferative GN (MPGN) was the most common pattern in hepatitis-C virus +ve patients (66.6%) and mem- branous GN was the most common pattern in hepatitis-B virus +ve patients (66.6%). In conclusion, GN was the most common pathology in this study, FSGS and MPGN were the most common patterns in primary GN.