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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: Pediatr Nephrol. 2018 Sep 7;34(2):261–267. doi: 10.1007/s00467-018-4072-6

Table 4.

Patients with VTE vs. no VTE

VTE (N =11) No VTE (N = 359) p value

Age in years at first hospitalization (median, IQR) 6.8 (2.6, 10.7) 6.2 (3.4, 10.7) 0.869
Sex (n, %) 0.348
Male 5 (45.5) 222 (61.8)
Race/ethnicity (n, %) 0.369
  White 6(75) 139 (45.9)
  Hispanic 0 (0) 62 (20.5)
  Black 1 (12.5) 69 (22.8)
  Other 1 (12.5) 33 (10.9)
Clinical pattern ofNS (n, %) 0.842
  Steroid sensitive-infrequently relapsing 3 (27.3) 101 (28.1)
  Steroid sensitive-frequently relapsing 2 (18.2) 56(15.6)
  Steroid sensitive-steroid dependent 2 (18.2) 86 (24.0)
  Steroid-resistant 3 (27.3) 96 (26.7)
  Congenital or infantile 0(0) 5 (1.4)
Biopsy diagnosis (n, %) 0.438
  Minimal change disease (± mild mesangial hypercellularity) 6 (54.6) 105 (29.3)
  FSGS or FGGS 2 (18.2) 83 (23.1)
  Membranous, MPGN, others 0 (0) 24 (6.7)
  No biopsy 3 (27.3) 137 (41.0)
Baseline eGFR ml/min/1.73m2 (median, IQR) 119.2(77.4, 131.5) 129.1 (97.1, 171.9) 0.086
Number of hospitalizations 2 (1,3) 1 (1,2) 0.412
(median, IQR)
Overall hospital days 22 (16, 26) 6 (3, 11) <0.001
ICU days 4 (0, 15) 0 (0, 0) <0.001
Number of infections 1 (0, 2) 0 (0, 1) 0.046

VTE venous thromboembolism, NS nephrotic syndrome, eGFR estimated glomerular filtration rate, ICU intensive care unit, FGGS focal global glomerulosclerosis, FSGS focal segmental glomerulosclerosis, MPGN membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis