Renal biopsy findings among Indigenous Australians: a nationwide review

Autor: Michael D Hughson, John P. Dowling, John F. Bertram, Susan A. Mott, Agnes B. Fogo, Terence Samuel, Priscilla Kincaid-Smith, Wendy E. Hoy, Rebecca N. Douglas-Denton, Rajalingam Sinniah, Meshach G. Kirubakaran, David J Pugsley
Rok vydání: 2012
Předmět:
Adult
Male
medicine.medical_specialty
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander
Time Factors
Biopsy
Kidney Glomerulus
Comorbidity
kidney biopsies
urologic and male genital diseases
Kidney
Indigenous
Focal segmental glomerulosclerosis
Glomerulonephritis
systematic review
Predictive Value of Tests
Residence Characteristics
Risk Factors
Diabetes mellitus
Internal medicine
Terminology as Topic
medicine
Aborigines
Humans
Chi-Square Distribution
medicine.diagnostic_test
urogenital system
business.industry
Incidence
Case-control study
Australia
Middle Aged
medicine.disease
Prognosis
female genital diseases and pregnancy complications
Surgery
Torres Strait Islanders
Nephrology
Case-Control Studies
Kidney Failure
Chronic

Female
Kidney Diseases
indigenous Australians
Renal biopsy
Disease Susceptibility
business
Kidney disease
Zdroj: Kidney international. 82(12)
ISSN: 1523-1755
Popis: Australia's Indigenous people have high rates of chronic kidney disease and kidney failure. To define renal disease among these people, we reviewed 643 renal biopsies on Indigenous people across Australia, and compared them with 249 biopsies of non-Indigenous patients. The intent was to reach a consensus on pathological findings and terminology, quantify glomerular size, and establish and compare regional biopsy profiles. The relative population-adjusted biopsy frequencies were 16.9, 6.6, and 1, respectively, for Aboriginal people living remotely/very remotely, for Torres Strait Islander people, and for non-remote-living Aboriginal people. Indigenous people more often had heavy proteinuria and renal failure at biopsy. No single condition defined the Indigenous biopsies and, where biopsy rates were high, all common conditions were in absolute excess. Indigenous people were more often diabetic than non-Indigenous people, but diabetic changes were still present in fewer than half their biopsies. Their biopsies also had higher rates of segmental sclerosis, post-infectious glomerulonephritis, and mixed morphologies. Among the great excess of biopsies in remote/very remote Aborigines, females predominated, with younger age at biopsy and larger mean glomerular volumes. Glomerulomegaly characterized biopsies with mesangiopathic changes only, with IgA deposition, or with diabetic change, and with focal segmental glomerulosclerosis (FSGS). This review reveals great variations in biopsy rates and findings among Indigenous Australians, and findings refute the prevailing dogma that most indigenous renal disease is due to diabetes. Glomerulomegaly in remote/very remote Aboriginal people is probably due to nephron deficiency, in part related to low birth weight, and probably contributes to the increased susceptibility to kidney disease and the predisposition to FSGS.
Databáze: OpenAIRE