Research Article
Glomerulonephritis Pattern at a Jordanian Tertiary Care Center
Table 3
Distribution of glomerular diseases based on patients’ age.
| Diagnosis | Adolescent ≤18 years (%) | Adult 19–59 years (%) | Elderly ≥ 60 years (%) |
| Primary Glomerulonephritis | | | |
| MGN | 2 (8.7%) | 27 (15.8%) | 3 (20.0%) | IgAN | 1 (4.3%) | 16 (9.4%) | 0 (0%) | FSGS | 3 (13.0%) | 9 (5.3%) | 0 (0%) | MCD | 4 (17.4%) | 6 (3.5%) | 0 (0%) | MesPGN | 2 (8.7%) | 7 (4.1%) | 0 (0%) | MPGN | 1 (4.3%) | 8 (4.7%) | 0 (0%) | Chronic GN | 0 (0%) | 8 (4.7%) | 1 (6.7%) | Post infectious GN | 0 (0%) | 4 (2.3%) | 0 (0%) | Alport disease | 0 (0%) | 1 (0.58%0 | 0 (0%) | CGN | 0 (0%) | 4 (2.3%) | 0 (0%) |
| Secondary Glomerulonephritis | | | |
| Lupus nephritis | 10 (43%) | 58 (33.9%) | 2 (13.3%) | Diabetic nephropathy | 0 (0%) | 17 (9.9%) | 6 (40%) | Fibrillary | 0 (0%) | 4 (2.3%) | 1 (6.7%) | Renal amyloidosis | 0 (0%) | 2 (1.2%) | 2 (13.3%) |
| Total | 23 (11.0%) | 171 (81.8%) | 15 (7.2%) |
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