RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Necropsy study on glomerulonephritis in the elderly.
JF Journal of Clinical Pathology
JO J Clin Pathol
FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd and Association of Clinical Pathologists
SP 891
OP 898
DO 10.1136/jcp.28.11.891
VO 28
IS 11
A1 P R Potvliege
A1 G De Roy
A1 F Dupuis
YR 1975
UL http://jcp.bmj.com/content/28/11/891.abstract
AB 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.