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Table 5 Kidney transplant cohort and main disease categories leading to transplantation

From: The frequency of rare and monogenic diseases in pediatric organ transplant recipients in Italy

Disease macro-category

Pediatrics (n. 887)

Adults (n. 18,553)

Total (n. 19,440)

n. (%)

n. (%)

n. (%)

Congenital familial rare and metabolic based nephro- and uro-pathies

670 (75.5)

378 (2.0)

721 (3.7)

Glomerular nephropathies

89 (10.0)

7,438 (40.1)

7,527 (38.7)

Cystic nephropathies

43 (4.8)

3,493 (18.8)

3,536 (18.2)

Acute renal insufficiency

13 (1.5)

43 (0.2)

56 (0.3)

Other familial nephropathies

12 (1.4)

227 (1.2)

239 (1.2)

Different nephro-vasculopathic and nephrosclerosis syndromes

7 (0.8)

389 (2.1)

396 (2.0)

Kidney neoplasia

2 (0.2)

53 (0.3)

55 (0.3)

Hypertensive nephrosclerosis

1 (0.2)

1,610 (8.7)

1,611 (8.3)

Tubular and interstitial nephropathies

0 (0.0)

1,326 (7.1)

1,326 (6.8)

Diabetic nephropathy

0 (0.0)

1,409 (7.6)

1,409 (7.2)

Non-cholestatic cirrhosis

0 (0.0)

2 (0.0)

2 (0.0)

Other hepatopathies

3 (0.3)

1 (0.0)

4 (0.0)

Other kidney disorders

47 (5.3)

2,184 (11.8)

2,558 (13.2)