Table 1 Clinical characteristics of the 37 phenotyped patients who chronically used low-dose steroids for at least the last 2 years prior to examination
From: Spectrum of retinal abnormalities in renal transplant patients using chronic low-dose steroids
Clinical characteristics | |
|---|---|
Number of patients | 37 |
Number of males | 25 (68%) |
Number of females | 12 (32%) |
Mean age ± SD (range) at phenotyping, in years | 59 ± 11 (38–77) |
Mean age ± SD (range) at renal transplantation, in years | 50 ± 12 (22–71) |
Reason for first transplantation | |
Autosomal polycystic kidney disease | 8 (22%) |
IgA nephropathy | 7 (19%) |
Unknown origin of disease | 6 (16%) |
Acute tubular necrosis | 2 (5%) |
Membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis | 2 (5%) |
Malignancy | 2 (5%) |
Reflux nephropathy | 2 (5%) |
Alport syndrome | 1 (3%) |
C3 glomerulopathy | 1 (3%) |
Chronic urinary tract infections | 1 (3%) |
Hemolytic-uremic syndrome + hypertension | 1 (3%) |
Medullary cystic kidney disease | 1 (3%) |
Oxalate nephropathy | 1 (3%) |
Pauci-immune crescentic glomerulonephritis | 1 (3%) |
Tubulointerstitial nephritis | 1 (3%) |
Retransplantation | 4 (11%) |