Lesions Superimposed by Traditional Medicine on Renal Biopsies in Senegal

Traditional African medicine products are responsible for kidney damage that baffles both nephrologists and pathologists.Renal biopsies reveal acute or chronic inflammatory changes that cannot be explained by the progressive stage of the basic lesion of the nephropathy.The aim of this study is to analyze the lesions superimposed on 73 kidney biopsies from patients who took traditional herbal medications to treat the symptoms of kidney disease.