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Crescents and CKD progression in diabetic nephropathy
Xia Gu1, Danyang Zhang2, Shimin Jiang2
1China-Japan Friendship Hospital (Institute of Clinical Medical Sciences), Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Beijing 100029, China; Department of Nephrology, China-Japan Friendship Hospital, Beijing 100029, China.
Objectives:
Crescents play important roles in the pathophysiology of patients with biopsy-proven diabetic nephropathy (DN). However, their relationship to disease severity and progression has not been fully clarified.
Methods:
We assessed 142 participants in a retrospective cohort study of biopsy-proven DN. We determined associations of crescent formation with CKD progression event, defined as a sustained decrease from baseline of at least 40% in the eGFR or ESRD, using Cox proportional hazards models. A prognostic nomogram was constructed to predict 1-, 3-, and 5-year renal survival for patients with DN.
Results:
Glomerular crescent formation negatively correlated with eGFR (Spearman's ρ=-0.33, P=0.01), whereas there was no significant correlation between crescents and 24-hour proteinuria, KW nodules, capillary microaneurysms, and C3 deposition. After adjustment for traditional risk factors (demographics, eGFR, proteinuria, and pathologic score), the crescents were independently associated with a CKD progression event (HR, 1.71; 95% CI, 1.07-2.76; P=0.024). Moreover, the risk of CKD progression events was greater with a higher proportion of crescents but reached a plateau when the crescent proportion was 20%.
Conclusions:
In patients with DN, crescents were associated with CKD progression events independent of clinical and pathologic characteristics.
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