Research Article
Clinical Significance of Renal Allograft Protocol Biopsies: A Single Tertiary Center Experience in Malaysia
Table 1
Clinical characteristic of transplant recipients, stratified by type of histological findings.
| | | N (n= 161) | BC (n= 145) | SCR (n= 28) | p value |
| | Recipient age | 42.00 (±11.1) | 42.57 (±10.9) | 42.71 (±12.5) | 0.89 | | Recipient sex (M:F) | 2.83 : 1 | 2.63 : 1 | 2.11 : 1 | 0.796 | | Cause of ESRD | | | | | | DM (n=39) | 41% | 53.80% | 5.20% | 0.643 | | HTN (n=31) | 54.80% | 38.70% | 6.50% | 0.16 | | CGN (n=100) | 55% | 40% | 5% | 0.31 | | Obstructive uropathy (n=16) | 56.30% | 31.30% | 12.40% | 0.784 | | APKD (n=10) | 50% | 40% | 10% | 0.967 | | Analgesic nephropathy (n=2) | 0% | 100% | 0% | 0.269 | | Unknown cause (n=143) | 46.20% | 42.70% | 11.10% | 0.226 | | Serum Creatinine (mmol/L) | 110.25 (±26.6) | 111.81 (±30.14) | 109.6 (±31.86) | 0.944 | | eGFR mL/min1.73 m2 | 67.80 (±15.35) | 67.11 (±16.25) | 71.28 (±13.58) | 0.842 |
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ESRD: end-stage renal disease.
DM: diabetes mellitus.
HTN: hypertension.
CGN: chronic glomerulonephritis.
APKD: adult polycystic kidney disease.
eGFR: estimated glomerular filtration rate.
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