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Whole slide imaging vs eyeballing: The future in quantification of tubular atrophy in routine clinical practice
INTRODUCTION: Histologic assessment of interstitial fibrosis and tubular atrophy is an accepted method of assessing chronic damage to the kidney and correlates with renal function in native and allograft renal biopsies. The challenge, however, is to quantify the interstitial fibrosis and tubular atr...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9121712/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35603119 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijn.IJN_333_20 |
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author | Gupta, Kanishk Maitra, Dhruva Gowrishankar, Swarnalata |
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description | INTRODUCTION: Histologic assessment of interstitial fibrosis and tubular atrophy is an accepted method of assessing chronic damage to the kidney and correlates with renal function in native and allograft renal biopsies. The challenge, however, is to quantify the interstitial fibrosis and tubular atrophy with accuracy and to minimize the inter-observer variability. Though “eyeballing” on light microscopy is the most commonly practised method used for the quantification of tubular atrophy, it may not be very accurate. To complement this method, Whole Slide Imaging (WSI) techniques that have more accurate results and have a higher reproducibility can be used. There is not much data on the correlation of the results obtained by the ‘eyeballing’ technique with those by digital WSI. METHODS: Tubular atrophy in 151 consecutive adequate native kidney biopsies were graded 0 to III by ‘conventional’ eyeballing by a single experienced renal pathologist. These results were compared with the grades obtained on the same cases by WSI and digital marking of the atrophy. RESULTS: The concordance of the two groups in the entire cohort was only 66.2% with over grading in 30.4% and under grading in 3.3%. Whilst accuracy of grading was over 74% in all grades, the sensitivity in grades I and II were low at 52% and 47.3% respectively as was the positive predictive value at 32.5 and 44% respectively. CONCLUSION: Assessment of tubular atrophy on digital images will be the way forward for accurate quantification. |
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spelling | pubmed-91217122022-05-21 Whole slide imaging vs eyeballing: The future in quantification of tubular atrophy in routine clinical practice Gupta, Kanishk Maitra, Dhruva Gowrishankar, Swarnalata Indian J Nephrol Original Article INTRODUCTION: Histologic assessment of interstitial fibrosis and tubular atrophy is an accepted method of assessing chronic damage to the kidney and correlates with renal function in native and allograft renal biopsies. The challenge, however, is to quantify the interstitial fibrosis and tubular atrophy with accuracy and to minimize the inter-observer variability. Though “eyeballing” on light microscopy is the most commonly practised method used for the quantification of tubular atrophy, it may not be very accurate. To complement this method, Whole Slide Imaging (WSI) techniques that have more accurate results and have a higher reproducibility can be used. There is not much data on the correlation of the results obtained by the ‘eyeballing’ technique with those by digital WSI. METHODS: Tubular atrophy in 151 consecutive adequate native kidney biopsies were graded 0 to III by ‘conventional’ eyeballing by a single experienced renal pathologist. These results were compared with the grades obtained on the same cases by WSI and digital marking of the atrophy. RESULTS: The concordance of the two groups in the entire cohort was only 66.2% with over grading in 30.4% and under grading in 3.3%. Whilst accuracy of grading was over 74% in all grades, the sensitivity in grades I and II were low at 52% and 47.3% respectively as was the positive predictive value at 32.5 and 44% respectively. CONCLUSION: Assessment of tubular atrophy on digital images will be the way forward for accurate quantification. Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2022 2022-03-23 /pmc/articles/PMC9121712/ /pubmed/35603119 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijn.IJN_333_20 Text en Copyright: © 2022 Indian Journal of Nephrology https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms. |
spellingShingle | Original Article Gupta, Kanishk Maitra, Dhruva Gowrishankar, Swarnalata Whole slide imaging vs eyeballing: The future in quantification of tubular atrophy in routine clinical practice |
title | Whole slide imaging vs eyeballing: The future in quantification of tubular atrophy in routine clinical practice |
title_full | Whole slide imaging vs eyeballing: The future in quantification of tubular atrophy in routine clinical practice |
title_fullStr | Whole slide imaging vs eyeballing: The future in quantification of tubular atrophy in routine clinical practice |
title_full_unstemmed | Whole slide imaging vs eyeballing: The future in quantification of tubular atrophy in routine clinical practice |
title_short | Whole slide imaging vs eyeballing: The future in quantification of tubular atrophy in routine clinical practice |
title_sort | whole slide imaging vs eyeballing: the future in quantification of tubular atrophy in routine clinical practice |
topic | Original Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9121712/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35603119 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijn.IJN_333_20 |
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