Glomerular diseases outcome at one year in a tertiary care centre

Objectives: to determine outcome in primary and secondary glomerular diseases at one year follow up. methods: study design is observational cohort, done in out-patient department, dow iinternational medical college, duhs. all information gathered on a proforma. all patients with dipstick positive proteinuria and clinical glomerular disease were included in study. patients with no proteinuria were excluded so were patients with stage 5 ckd. patients were followed for proteinuria and renal insufficiency at completion of one year follow up. statistical analysis was done on spss version 16. result: total number of patients who completed one year follow up was 173. mean age of patients was 51.67+ 10.16 (range 15 to 75 years). ninety two (53.2%), were males and 81(46.8%) were females , ratio being 1.1: 1.0. mean weight of our patients was 67.43+ 14.13 kg, ( 35 to 107 kg). commonest cause of glomerular disease in our patient was diabetic nephropathy which was seen in 94.2% patients. commonest associated problem with glomerular disease was hypertension seen in 66.5% of patients. four out of 173 patients had stage 5 ckd at end of follow up at one year while quantitativ proteinuria remained same at one year follow up. conclusion: one year follow up is critical for patients with glomerular disease associated with stage 4 ckd as progression to end stage renal failure may be seen within one year in these patients.