Prognostic value of clinical, laboratory, and morphological factors in patients with primary focal segmental glomerulosclerosis - distribution of pathological variants in the Croatian population.

Background: Scant data are available on the prognosis and distribution of subtypes of focal segmental glomerulosclerosis (FSGS) using the new Columbia classification in European populations. We assessed the predictive value of the clinical, laboratory, and morphological data obtained at the time of diagnosis, established on the basis of kidney biopsy, for the prognosis of primary FSGS.

Material/methods: Sixty adults with FSGS were included in the study.

Neurotoxicity that may mimic progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy in patient with transplanted kidney.

We present the 55-year-old woman who has had kidney transplantation three times. She has been treated with immunosuppressive therapy and lamivudine for hepatitis B and C. Nine years after the last transplantation she showed neurological symptoms that presented in the form of confusion and epileptic seizures of the grand mal type.