Biopsy-proven kidney diseases in the elderly: clinical characteristics, renal histopathological spectrum and prognostic factors

Conclusions
Kidney diseases in the elderly have distinctive characteristics. Requirement for RRT was associated with poor prognosis in the elderly with biopsy-proven kidney diseases.

Source: Journal of International Medical Research - October 8, 2016 Category: Research Authors: Chen, Y., Li, P., Cui, C., Yuan, A., Zhang, K., Yu, C. Tags: Clinical Reports Source Type: research