Renal Biopsy in the Very Elderly

Renal biopsy in very elderly patients: data from the Spanish Registry of Glomerulonephritis.

BACKGROUND Studies on renal histology results in very elderly patients are extremely rare. METHODS We analyzed histology and clinical findings in patients aged over 85 years undergoing renal biopsy and whose data were included in the Spanish Registry of Glomerulonephritis between 1994 and 2009. RESULTS A total of 17,680 native kidney biopsies were taken: 71 (0.4%) were from patients aged ov...

Outcome of renal replacement therapy in the very elderly.

BACKGROUND In a retrospective case-note and computer database analysis we assessed the outcome of very elderly patients (> or = 75 years old) with end-stage renal disease (ESRD) on renal replacement therapy (RRT). METHODS Fifty-eight individuals aged 75 or over (group 1) commenced RRT between 1 January 1991 and 31 December 1995. Comparisons were made with other patients commencing RRT who wer...

Stroke in the Very Elderly

Stroke in the Very Elderly To the Editor: Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common, potent, and independent risk factor for ischemic stroke,1 the incidence of which increases with age.2 To determine the influence of advanced age on anticoagulation therapy in elderly patients with AF, a retrospective cohort study of all patients admitted in our department (from 1995 to 2003) was conducted. Th...

anemia in the elderly after renal transplantation

The renal biopsy.

CONTEXT The first renal biopsy was carried out more than a century ago, but its widespread introduction into clinical use, beginning in the 1950s, helped develop nephrology into the powerful subspecialty of internal medicine that it is today. In the past 25 years, the use of the spring-loaded biopsy gun, in combination with newer visualization techniques, including ultrasound and computed axial...