Characteristics and Outcome of Biopsy-proven Malignant Hypertension with Severe Kidney Injury: A Retrospective Study.

Background: Although malignant hypertension begets multiple target organ damage, there is limited data on patients with severe renal injury and evident malignant hypertension in renal histopathology.

Methods: We assessed the baseline demographic, histopathological findings and clinical outcomes in this retrospective analysis of patients with biopsy-proven malignant hypertension.

Results: Thirty cases were analysed, the mean age of patients was 40 ± 11.