Table 2.

Comparison with other studies

Studies	Our Study	Koshy et al.[16]	Gupta et al.[17]	Bagchi et al.[16]	Kohli et al.[7]	Prakash et al.[6]
Patients (n)	230	231	109	124	26	65(only glomerular diseases)
Duration of study	2012–2017	2010–2016	2011–2014	2010–2014	200–2004	1998–2002
Proportion of total biopsies done in the study period (%)	13.8%	33%	8.7%	7.2%	12.4%	NA
Age (years) (mean±SD)	64.02±7.87	64±6.03	67.7±6.4	64.9±4.9	63.5±3.2	64.2±0.83
Age (years) cutoff	≥60 years	≥60 years	≥60 years	≥60 years	≥60 years	≥60 years
Common indications for biopsy	NS (49.6%) RPRF (20.9%) AKI (15.7%)	NS (30.4%) Nephritic Syndrome (19.1%) AKI (15.7%)	NS (37.4%) RPRF Nephritic syndrome	NS (39.5%) AKI/RPGN (32.3%)	AKI/RPRF (73%) NS (27%)	NS (61.5%) Nephritic syndrome (29.2%) RPGN (6.15%)
Most common histology in NS	MGN	MGN	Amyloidosis	MGN	MGN, Amyloidosis	MGN
Most common histology in RPRF/AKI/Nephritic	RPRF-Crescentic GN AKI-ATN Nephritic-MPGN, DPGN	RPRF-PIGN AKI- AIN Nephritic-Benign Nephrosclerosis	RPRF-Pauci-immune crescentic GN, Nephritic-MPGN	AKI/RPRF: Pauci-immune crescentic GN	NA	NA
Most common histology overall	MGN (15.2%) Amyloidosis (13.9%) AKI (13%)	Diabetic Nephropathy (14.3%) CTIN (11.3%) MGN (10.4%)	NA	MGN (22.6%) FSGS (12.9%) MCD (11.3%)	Crescentic GN, AIN	NA

AKI: Acute kidney injury, AIN: Acute interstitial nephritis, ATN: Acute tubular necrosis, CGN: Chronic glomerulonephritis, CTIN: Chronic tubulointerstitial nephritis, DPGN: Diffuse proliferative, FSGS: Focal segmental glomerulosclerosis, GN: Glomerulonephritis, MCD: Minimal change disease, MGN: Membranous nephropathy, MIDD: Monoclonal immunoglobulin deposition diseases, glomerulonephritis, MPGN: Membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis, NS: Nephrotic syndrome, PIGN: Post-infectious glomerulonephritis, RPGN: Rapidly progressive glomerulonephritis, RPRF: Rapidly progressive renal failure, TMA: Thrombotic microangiopathy, NA: Data not available