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Research Article

Pathological patterns of primary nephrotic syndrome in Central China: a retrospective study of 627 cases

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Pages 514-519 | Received 08 Sep 2013, Accepted 28 Dec 2013, Published online: 25 Feb 2014

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Figure 1. Age sex distribution. *p < 0.05, **p < 0.005.

Figure 1. Age sex distribution. *p < 0.05, **p < 0.005.

Table 1. Frequency distribution of different pathological patterns in 627 primary nephrotic syndrome.

Figure 2. Changing spectrums of the four main pathological patterns underlying PNS from 2009 to 2012. *p < 0.005. MN, membranous nephtopathy; MCD, minimal change disease; IgAN, IgA nephropathy; FSGS, focal segmental glomerulosclerosis; Others, pathologic types mentioned before except MN, MCD, IgAN and FSGS.

Figure 2. Changing spectrums of the four main pathological patterns underlying PNS from 2009 to 2012. *p < 0.005. MN, membranous nephtopathy; MCD, minimal change disease; IgAN, IgA nephropathy; FSGS, focal segmental glomerulosclerosis; Others, pathologic types mentioned before except MN, MCD, IgAN and FSGS.

Table 2. The relationship between ages and pathological patterns of PNS.

Table 3. The clinicopathological correlations of FINS.

Figure 3. Frequenct distribution of different pathological patterns underlying IgAN with primary nephritic syndrome. MCD, minimal change disease; FSGS, focal segmental glomerulosclerosis; MsPGN, mesangioproliferative glomerulonephritis; FSGN, focal segmental glomerulonephritis; PSGN, proliferative segmental glomerulonephritis; DPGN, diffuse proliferative glomerulonephritis.

Figure 3. Frequenct distribution of different pathological patterns underlying IgAN with primary nephritic syndrome. MCD, minimal change disease; FSGS, focal segmental glomerulosclerosis; MsPGN, mesangioproliferative glomerulonephritis; FSGN, focal segmental glomerulonephritis; PSGN, proliferative segmental glomerulonephritis; DPGN, diffuse proliferative glomerulonephritis.

Table 4. The comparison of pathological lesions in our study with North China [19]: Taiwan province of China [20], United Stated [13], Pakistan [16], Spain [22], Korea [23], Brazil [5], and South Africa [18].

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