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Demographics of human kidney biopsies available at UAB (2006 - 2016)
	NATIVE KIDNEY BIOPSIES	TRANSPLANT KIDNEY BIOPSIES
Number of Cases	839	370
Age - Years (range; average)	20-99; 60.5	17-77; 50.5
Sex Male Female	441 398	218 152
Race White African American Hispanic Asian Other	250 218 6 3 362	139 216 4 - 11
NATIVE KIDNEY BIOPSIES WITH ACUTE KIDNEY INJURY AND ADDITIONAL DIAGNOSES
AKI As sole Diagnosis		196
Tubular Injury Acute Tubular necrosis Acute Tubular injury (e,g, brush border loss)		316 526
PRIMARY AND SECONDARY GLOMERULAR DISEASES (number) Minimal change disease (59); Glomerulosclerosis: global, focal segmental, collapsing (154); Complement related: C3, dense deposit; Monoclonal deposition disease: light chain, heavy chain, amyloidosis, fibrillary (24); Membranous nephropathy (25); Membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis (4); Proliferative, acute post infectious glomerulonephritis (7); IgA nephropathy (36); Lupus nephritis (34); Pauci-immune, crescentic, anti-GBM (39); Thin/abnormal basement membrane (11); Immune complex deposition (other)(8)
VASCULAR DISEASES Diabetic nephropathy (87); Thrombotic microangiopathy (12)
TUBULOINTERSTITIAL DISEASES Tubulointerstitial nephritis/pyelonephritis (34); Oxalate, urate, phosphate casts, crystals (20)
TRANSPLANT KIDNEY BIOPSIES WITH ACUTE KIDNEY INJURY AND ADDITIONAL DIAGNOSES
Tubular Injury Acute Tubular necrosis Acute Tubular injury (e,g, brush border loss)		25 347
TRANSPLANT RELATED Acute cellular rejection (15); Acute antibody mediated/humoral rejection (24); Acute vascular rejection (3); Tubulitis (58); Transplant glomerulopathy (16); BK/polyoma virus nephritis (6)
PRIMARY AND SECONDARY GLOMERULAR DISEASES Glomerulosclerosis: global, focal segmental, collapsing (10); Membranous nephropathy (2); Membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis (1); IgA nephropathy (5); Pauci-immune, crescentic, anti-GBM (1); Immune complex deposition (other)(6)
VASCULAR DISEASES Diabetic nephropathy (5); Thrombotic microangiopathy (4)
TUBULOINTERSTITIAL DISEASES Tubulointerstitial nephritis/pyelonephritis (4)