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Table 2 Renal histology of AAV patients

From: Persistent hematuria in patients with antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody-associated vasculitis during clinical remission: chronic glomerular lesion or low-grade active renal vasculitis?

Parameters

With persistent hematuria in remission (n = 45)

Without hematuria in remission (n = 52)

P value

Glomeruli (number)

28.0(20.5,38.5)

24.0(19.0,39.0)

0.36

Normal glomeruli (%)

30.4(22.7,60.4)

41.1(19.3,66.2)

0.88

Glomerular fibrinoid necrosis (%)

0.0(0.0,3.6)

0.7(0.0,8.2)

0.11

Cellular crescents (%)

41.7(16.9,59.3)

40.3(11.1,54.3)

0.83

Fibrous crescents (%)

0.0(0.0,5.6)

0.0(0.0,5,5)

0.92

Glomerulosclerosis (%)

2.3(0.0,13.7)

4.2(0.0,15.9)

0.86

Interstitial infiltrates (−/+/++/+++)

0/16/27/2

1/20/30/1

0.18

Interstitial fibrosis (−/+/++)

0/15/30

5/21/26

0.012

Tubular atrophy (−/+/++)

2/25/18

5/22/25

0.07

  1. The bold represents P value < 0.05