Frequency of histopathological patterns of renal diseases in a tertiary care hospital

Objective: to find out the histological patterns of renal diseases in patients,who underwent renal biopsy at lady reading hospital peshawar,pakistan. methodology: this was a descriptive study conducted at lady reading hospital peshawar,pakistan from july 2012 to july 2015. we performed renal biopsy of all patients who presented with; nephrotic syndrome,non-nephrotic range significant proteinuria,rapidly progressive glomerulonephritis,acute unexplained renal failure,sub-acute renal failure of unknown cause and nephritic syndrome. results: total number of patients were 200. mean age was 42.5 ±8.2 yrs. in 56(28%) of the patients the histological diagnosis was focal segmental glomerulosclerosis (fsgs),followed by membranous nephropathy (mn) 28(14%) minimal change disease (mcd) 25(12.5%),membrano-proliferative glomerulonephritis (mpgn) 20(10%) and lupus nephritis in 14(7%). conclusion: focal segmental glomerulosclerosis was leading cause of primary glomerular diseases. while secondary glomerular disease (sgn) in our population was most commonly caused by lupus nephritis (ln). © 2017,postgraduate medical institute. all rights reserved.