Focal Segmental Glomerulosclerosis in Paediatric Population of South Punjab Pakistan: A Tertiary Care Hospital Experience.

Objectives: To find out frequency, clinicopathological features, response of treatment and outcome among children with primary focal segmental glomerulosclerosis (FSGS).

Methods: This retrospective, non-interventional medical charts review study was conducted from a period of January 2011 to January 2020 at Pediatric Department of Nishtar Medical University Hospital, Multan, Pakistan. During the nine years study period, children of both genders, aged less than 16 years, with renal biopsies proven FSGS were included.

Clinical correlation and prognostic significance of immunofluorescence in renal biopsies of patients having Glomerulonephritis.

Objective: To correlate the immunofluorescence (IF) findings on renal biopsies of patients of glomerulonephritis (GN) with the clinical course of the disease.

Methods: This retrospective descriptive study was done at the Department of Pediatrics Medicine Unit-I, Nishtar Hospital Multan, from January 2008 to January 2019. A total of 387 cases of both gender, aged up to 16 years, diagnosed having GN on the basis of renal biopsies by light microscopy (LM) and IF findings, were included.