Romanian Journal of Internal Medicine (Sep 2019)

Prognostic factors in glomerular diseases with crescents

  • Yeter Hasan Haci,
  • Gonul Ipek,
  • Demirel Ertugrul,
  • Korucu Berfu,
  • Derici Ulver

DOI
https://doi.org/10.2478/rjim-2019-0010
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 57, no. 3
pp. 254 – 261

Abstract

Read online

Introduction. More than 50% of glomerular crescent formation is required for a diagnosis of crescentic glomerulonephritis in a kidney biopsy. Although treatment protocols have been established for diffuse crescentic glomerulonephritis, there is no standard treatment for patients with fewer crescents in renal biopsies. In this study the importance of crescent percentage and clinical features on renal survival independent of underlying disease was investigated.

Keywords