RENAL BIOPSY APPEARANCES IN RHEUMATOID DISEASE

  • 1 January 1983
    • journal article
    • research article
    • Vol. 20  (3) , 114-120
Abstract
Renal biopsies of 30 patients with rheumatoid arthritis and clinical evidence of renal disease were reviewed; only patients in whom the intravenous pyelogram was normal were subjected to biopsy, thus excluding those with papillary necrosis and chronic pyelonephritis. Tissue was studied by light-, electron- and immunofluorescence microscopy. There were 13 cases of mesangial change, 9 of membranous glomerulonephritis, 4 of tubulointerstitial change, 2 of focal segmental glomerulosclerosis, 1 case of amyloid and 1 of diffuse proliferative glomerulonephritis with crescents. All 9 patients with membranous glomerulonephritis but only 6 of 13 with mesangial change had received gold or penicillamine. There was no evidence of glomerulitis or of rheumatoid vasculitis.

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