Clinical Study
Glomerulonephritis with Crescents in Children: Etiology and Predictors of Renal Outcome
Table 4
Comparing lupus nephritis with other forms of crescentic GN (histological findings).
| | LN () (mean ± Std) | Non-LN () (mean ± Std) | |
| No of glomeruli in the biopsy | 24.9 (±11.4) | 26.8 (±11.5) | 0.6 | Globally sclerorsed glomeruli (%) | 3.9 (±5.1) | 13.8 (±22.2) | 0.05 | Glomeruli with crescents (%) | 36 (±13) | 42 (±24) | 0.35 | % glomeruli with BM thickening | 30% | 17.6% | 0.4 | % glomeruli with mesangial cellularity | 15% | 17.6% | 0.8 | % glomeruli with mesangial matrix expansion | 35% | 35.3% | 0.98 | % glomeruli with Interstitial fibrosis/atrophy | 5% | 11.8% | 0.4 | % glomeruli with ATN | 25% | 41.2% | 0.3 | % glomeruli with s vasculopathy | 0% | 11.8% | 0.1 |
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