A summary of renal pathological entities from 1096 cases of renal biopsy

Objective To retrospectively summarize the renal pathological entities from 1 096 cases of renal biopsy.Methods(1 096) cases of renal biopsy were done by Kidney Department of Southwest Hospital between January 2000 and April 2005.The renal pathological entities were summarized.Results There were 284 cases of IgA nephropathy,253 cases of mesangial proliferative glomerulonephritis,92 cases of idiopathic membranous nephropathy,77 cases of idiopathic FSGS,66 cases of sclerosis nephritis,41 cases of membranoproliferative nephritis,15 cases of endocapillary proliferative glomerulonephritis,7 cases of cresentic nephritis,4 cases of minimal change disease,111 cases of lupus nephritis,18 cases of purpuric nephritis,11 cases of diabetic nephropathy,9 cases of renal amyloidosis,25 cases of chronic interstitial nephritis,21 cases of acute tubular necrosis,7 cases of acute interstitial nephritis,21 cases of hypertensive nephropathy,1 case of vasculitis,1 case of preeclampsia,1 case of Alport syndrome and 1 case of Goodpasture syndrome.Among 20 cases of transplanted kidney,12 belonged to acute rejection and the other 8 belonged to chronic allograft nephropathy.Conclusion Primary glomerulonephritis is the most common renal glomerular disease with IgA nephropathy occupying the largest part.Secondary nephropathy is mainly lupus nephritis.