Results
Seventy patients with a mean age of 55.7 ± 9.4 and 43 (61.4%) males
were included. 38 (54.3%) of the patients had DN, and 32 (45.7%) had
PGN. In the PGN, membranous GN (20, 62.5%) was most common. In DN
patients, diabetes duration was longer; complications such as
retinopathy, neuropathy, hypertension, coronary artery disease, heart
failure were more frequent. At the time of renal biopsy, blood sugar,
HbA1C, blood pressure, serum albumin, and proteinuria values were
similar in 2 groups. The pathological damage findings of kidney biopsy
in DN patients were more severe. In the first year after kidney biopsy
decrease in eGFR was higher in DN patients, whereas eGFR did not change
in PGN patients.