Xiaodong Zhang, Fan Luo, Ruixuan Chen, Jie Shen, Xiaoting Liu, Yongjun Shi, Qiongqiong Yang, Ting Huang, Hua Li, Ying Hu, Qijun Wan, Chunbo Chen, Nan Jia, Yue Cao, Yanqin Li, Hao Zhao, Licong Su, Peiyan Gao, Xin Xu, Sheng Nie, Fan Fan Hou
RATIONALE & OBJECTIVE: Challenges in achieving valid risk prediction and stratification impede treatment decisions and clinical research design for patients with glomerular diseases. This study evaluated whether chronic histologic changes, when complementing other clinical data, improved the prediction of disease outcomes across a diverse group of glomerular diseases. STUDY DESIGN: Multicenter retrospective cohort study. SETTING & PARTICIPANTS: 4,982 patients with biopsy-proven glomerular disease who underwent native biopsy at 8 tertiary care hospitals across China in 2004-2020...
April 2023: American Journal of Kidney Diseases