A review of renal biopsy results in Iraqi children with glomerular diseases

Background: Renal biopsy is a fundamental standard in renal tissue analysis to establish the histopathological diagnosis and to determine the extent of damage in renal disease. Objectives: To study the histopathological results of renal biopsies in Iraqi children with glomerular diseases. Subjects, materials and methods: Analysis was done on 200 renal biopsy results of Iraqi paediatric who underwent percutaneous renal biopsy, collected from departments of Paediatric Nephrology in Baghdad covering a ten years period from 2004 to 2013. Results: For the 200 patients included in this study, 55% were males and 45% were females. The mean age was 7.8 + SE of 4.1 years. The most frequent histopathological diagnosis was minimal change disease reported in 86 (43%) renal biopsies followed by focal segmental glomerulosclerosis found in 36 (18%) renal biopsies. Conclusions: Minimal change disease was the main histopathological diagnosis for renal biopsies in Iraq.