Saudi Journal of Kidney Diseases and Transplantation (Jan 2017)

Profile of glomerular diseases associated with hepatitis B and C: A single-center experience from India

  • Nishad Raveendran,
  • Pankaj Beniwal,
  • Amith Vijay Leon D′Souza,
  • Rajendra Singh Tanwar,
  • Piyush Kimmatkar,
  • Dhananjai Agarwal,
  • Vinay Malhotra

DOI
https://doi.org/10.4103/1319-2442.202761
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 28, no. 2
pp. 355 – 361

Abstract

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Hepatitis B and C are known to affect kidneys in a number of ways. Glomerular diseases associated with hepatitis B and C include membranous nephropathy (MN), membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis (MPGN), focal segmental glomerulosclerosis, immunoglobulin A nephropathy, rarely amyloidosis, and fibrillary and immunotactoid glomerulopathy. In a retrospective analysis of kidney biopsy of 534 patients, we found 16 (2.9%) patients of hepatitis B and 11 (2.05%) patients of hepatitis C with glomerular disease. The most common form of glomerulonephritis in hepatitis B patient was MN and in hepatitis C patient was MPGN.