Cristiana Rollino, Franca Giacchino, Silvana Savoldi, Federico Marazzi, Michela Ferro, Alessandro Amore, Luca Besso, Marco Quaglia, Marco Manganaro, Pier Eugenio Nebiolo, Piero Stratta, Giuseppe Segoloni, Rosanna Coppo
The Piedmont Group of Clinical Nephrology has compared the activity of 18 nephrology centers in the region Piedmont/Valle d'Aosta with regard to renal biopsy (RB). Data on the RBs performed in every nephrology unit, taking into account their entire experience (in some cases spanning more than 30 years), were analyzed. 3396 RBs were performed between 1996 and 2011. Thirty to forty percent were done in patients aged >-65 years (1568 in patients >-65 years, 29 in patients >-85 years). 598 BRs were performed in children over the last 20 years...
July 2012: Giornale Italiano di Nefrologia: Organo Ufficiale Della Società Italiana di Nefrologia