From: Clinicopathological characteristics of patients with paraproteinemia and renal damage
 | Amyloidosis (n  =  25) | Cryo-GN (n  =  7) | MIDD (n  =  3) | PGNMID (n  =  5) | P value |
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Male [n (%)] | 17 (68.0) | 4 (57.1) | 2 (66.7) | 2 (38.1) | 0.336 |
Age (year) | 58.0  ±  7.7 | 53.3  ±  16.4 | 69.7  ±  8.4 | 56.4  ±  7.5 | 0.209 |
Renal disease duration before renal biopsy (months) | 10.0  ±  10.8 | 7.8  ±  7.0 | 22.0  ±  22.7 | 13.7  ±  10.3 | 0.289 |
Hematuria [n (%)] | 2 (23)a,c | 6 (85.7) | 1 (33.3) | 3 (60.0) | 0.001 |
Proteinuria (g/24 h) | 3.8  ±  2.3 | 7.0  ±  2.9a,d,e | 2.0  ±  1.6 | 2.1  ±  1.5 | 0.002 |
Albumin (g/L) | 25.8  ±  5.8 | 25.4  ±  3.9 | 36.6  ±  1.7b,d | 31.1  ±  9.7 | 0.017 |
Hemoglobin (g/L) | 123.4  ±  16.5a,b,c | 91.1  ±  12.5 | 93.0  ±  28.2 | 104.6  ±  16.5 | 0.000 |
SCr (μmol/L) | 134.2  ±  216.8 | 243.3  ±  197.3 | 386.3  ±  221.0b,f | 78.6  ±  33.1e | 0.002 |
eGFR (mL/min/1.73m2) | 81.7  ±  37.6 | 29.0  ±  17.1a,e | 18.4  ±  10.7 b,f | 80.1  ±  30.4 | 0.001 |
Low serum C3 [n (%)] | 4 (16.0)c | 3 (42.9) | 2 (66.7) | 5 (100) | 0.089 |
Abnormal serum κ/λ ratio [n (%)] | 13 (52.0) | 3 (42.9) | 2 (66.7) | 0 (0) | 0.269 |
Abnormal urine κ/λ ratio [n (%)] | 14 (60.9) | 1 (14.3) | 2 (66.7) | 0 (0) | 0.131 |
Abnormal sIFE [n (%)] | 16 (66.7) | 5 (71.4) | 2 (66.7) | 1 (20) | 0.237 |
Abnormal uIFE [n (%)] | 17 (77.3) | 3 (75) | 2 (100) | 1 (50) | 0.702 |
κ (sIFE, [n (%)]) | 3 (20.0)a | 4 (80) | 1 (50) | 0 (0) | 0.031 |
κ (uIFE, [n (%)]) | 3 (18.8) | 1 (33.3) | 1 (50.0) | 0 (0) | 0.687 |
Renal monotypic κ [n (%)] | 4 (16.0)c | 5 (71.4) | 2 (66.7) | 4 (80) | 0.003 |
Global glomerulosclerosis (%) | 14.4  ±  16.4 | 17.4  ±  22.8 | 42.3  ±  13.7b,d,f | 12.6  ±  13.8 | 0.081 |
Segmental glomerulosclerosis (%) | 0 | 3.1  ±  8.3 | 0 | 2  ±  4.5 | 0.236 |
Crescents (%) | 0 | 18.0  ±  32.2a | 0 | 8.2  ±  6.8 | 0.319 |
IFTA | 1.04  ±  0.69a | 1.86  ±  0.69e | 3.0  ±  0.0b,d,f | 1.0  ±  0.0 | 0.000 |
Interstitial inflammation | 0.79  ±  0.66a,b | 2.14  ±  0.69 | 2.33  ±  0.58 | 1.40  ±  0.89 | 0.000 |
Podocyte effacement (%) | 2.6  ±  0.6 | 2.6  ±  0.8 | 2.3  ±  0.6 | 2.4  ±  0.9 | 0.883 |