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Hypertensive nephropathy: a major roadblock hindering the advance of precision nephrology.
Clinical Kidney Journal 2020 August
In the 2017 Annual Report of the ERA-EDTA Registry, hypertension continues to be the second or third most common cause of renal replacement therapy (RRT) in Europe, tied with glomerulonephritis. There is, however, one little issue: hypertension-induced end-stage renal disease (ESRD) might not exist at all as currently understood, that is, as hypertensive nephrosclerosis. In this regard, the incidence of RRT due to hypertensive nephropathy is related to the incidence of other causes of ESRD but not to the burden of hypertension per country. The current definition of hypertensive nephropathy is non-specific, outdated and only allows a delayed diagnosis by exclusion. It is not helpful that 80% of chronic kidney disease patients develop hypertension and kidney biopsy has no findings specific for hypertensive nephropathy. There is an urgent need to redefine the concept of hypertensive nephropathy with a clear and comprehensive set of criteria that at least should indicate how other nephropathies, including familial nephropathies, should be excluded. Correct causality assessment and aetiology-based therapy is a key to the progress of nephrology and it should no longer be accepted that 'hypertensive nephropathy' serves to disguise a suboptimal diagnostic workup. A diagnosis of nephropathy of unknown cause would be more honest when the full range of alternative aetiological diagnoses is not explored.
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