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What is the prognosis of ANCA-associated glomerulonephritis with immune deposition?
Xiang Xiao1,2, Honghong Ren1, Peijuan Gao3
1Department of Nephrology, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Chengdu, China.
Objectives:
This study aimed to analyze histological and clinical characteristics of patients with antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody (ANCA)-associated vasculitis (AAV) showing renal involvement to investigate the associations between immune complexes (IC) and clinicopathological indicators, and explore the renal outcomes of AAV.
Methods:
We retrospectively evaluated the histopathological features and clinical characteristics of 80 renal biopsies of patients with AAV with renal involvement. Renal morphology was classified into two (with and without the presence of IC and complement deposition). Endpoints included end-stage kidney disease (ESKD) and death.
Results:
Compared with patients without IC, patients with immune deposition had lower complement C3 (0.80 ± 0.27 vs. 0.93 ± 0.20, p = 0.024), more severe hematuria [133 (46-299) vs. 33 (15-115), p = 0.001] but had milder chronic pathology, including chronic tubular atrophy (p = 0.03), chronic interstitial fibrosis (p = 0.049). Patients in the immune deposition group showed a tendency to have more severe crescent formation and less glomerulosclerosis, but the difference was not statistically significant. Endpoints such as death and ESKD were not significantly different between the two groups.
Conclusions:
Immune deposition may indicate lower complement C3, more severe hematuria and glomerular lesions, milder tubular atrophy, and interstitial fibrosis, but it cannot predict the renal outcome.
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