TY - JOUR T1 - Necropsy study on glomerulonephritis in the elderly. JF - Journal of Clinical Pathology JO - J Clin Pathol SP - 891 LP - 898 DO - 10.1136/jcp.28.11.891 VL - 28 IS - 11 AU - P R Potvliege AU - G De Roy AU - F Dupuis Y1 - 1975/11/01 UR - http://jcp.bmj.com/content/28/11/891.abstract N2 - The necropsy reports and clinical observations of 44 cases of glomerulonephritis occurring in patients over 55 years old were reviewed. Two-thirds of the patients died from a rapidly progressive renal disease with focal necrotizing and fibrosing glomerular lesions; half of these exhibited a granulomatous splenic trabeculitis; an associated vasculitis was found in only a minority of these cases. Another important group consisted of cases of acute diffuse glomerulonephritis which, as a rule, occurred in association with a major infection. There were only four cases of chronic sclerosing glomerulonephritis. ER -