Estudo clínico-patológico das glomerulopatias no Hospital de Clínicas Gaspar Vianna / Glomerular diseases clinicopathologic profile at Hospital de Clínicas Gaspar Vianna

RESUMO

Objetivo: estabelecer o perfil epidemiológico dos pacientes submetidos à biópsia renal na fundação.

ABSTRACT

Objective: to establish the epidemiologic profile of Fundação Hospital de Clínicas Gaspar Vianna (FHCGV) patients submitted to renal biopsy and identify the most common kidney diseases biopsed and related clinical syndromes, formulating clinical and pathologic correlations. Methods: a retrospective study was undertaken of ali renal biopsy registries performed from 2002 to 2005 at Nephrology Service of FHCGV. Data were obtained from Kidney Biopsies Registry Book, which contained personal, clinical and histological data of 32 patients, of both sexes. Results: adults composed most part of the sample (94%) and 56% of ali patients were male. Only three subjects IInderwellt biopsies complicationsj. The most common clinical syndrome was nephritic syndrome (72%), followed by hematuria (25%). Focal segmental glomerulosclerosis (FSGS) (22%) and lupus nephritis (15%) were associated to nephrotic syndrome in most of cases. Conclusion: nephrotic syndrome and FSGS were the most frequent clinical and histological findings at FHCGV, respectively.