Developments in the Histopathological Classification of ANCA-Associated Glomerulonephritis.
Emma E van DaalenMaria A C Wester TrejoArda GöçeroğluFranco FerrarioKensuke JohLaure-Hélène NoëlYayoi OgawaSuzanne WilhelmusMiriam J BallEva HonsovaZdenka HruskovaRenate KainTomoyoshi KimuraMarek KollarAndreas KronbichlerKristine LindhardXavier PuéchalSteven SalvatoreWladimir SzpirtHideki TakizawaVladimir TesarAnnelies E BerdenOlaf M DekkersE Christiaan HagenJan OostingChinar RahmattullaRon WolterbeekWillem Jan BosJan A BruijnIngeborg M BajemaPublished in: Clinical journal of the American Society of Nephrology : CJASN (2020)
The crescentic and mixed classes seem to have a similar prognosis, also after adjusting for differences in patient populations, treatment, and interobserver agreement. However, at this stage, we are not inclined to merge the crescentic and mixed classes because the reported confidence intervals do not exclude important differences in prognosis and because an important histopathologic distinction would be lost.