...-month mortality and hospitalization. Conclusions: Frailty as assessed by a GA is related to mortality in elderly patients with ESKD. Individual components of the GA are related to both mortality and hospitalization. As the GA allows for distinguishing between frail and fit patients initiating dialysis...

...Namiko A. Goto; Ismay N. van Loon; Moira I. Morpey; Marianne C. Verhaar; Hanna C. Willems; Mariëlle H. Emmelot-Vonk; Michiel L. Bots; Franciscus T.J. Boereboom; Marije E. Hamaker Background/Aims: Decision-making in elderly patients considering dialysis is highly complex. With the increasing number...

...Cássia Gomes da Silveira Santos; Rafael Fernandes Romani; Ricardo Benvenutti; João Otávio Ribas Zahdi; Miguel Carlos Riella; Marcelo Mazza do Nascimento Background/Aims: Acute kidney injury (AKI) has been reported as a recognized condition among the elderly population; however, its clinical...

...Parminder K. Judge; Michael E. Reschen; Richard Haynes; Edward J. Sharples Background/Aims: Anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic autoantibody-associated vasculitis (AAV) is a cause of biopsy-proven acute kidney injury, more common in the elderly. Treatment requires immunosuppression, which can have...

...Linnea Malmgren; Fiona E. McGuigan; Sofia Berglundh; Kerstin Westman; Anders Christensson; Kristina Åkesson Background/Aims: Renal function deteriorates with age, but a few studies have addressed this longitudinally in elderly women. Our objective was, using 5 estimated glomerular filtration rates...

... The present study was conducted to develop a special formula to predict creatinine clearance (C cr , ml/min) in the elderly with chronic muscle atrophy using serum albumin (Alb, g/dl). We obtained 90 data sets including actual body weight (BW, kg), urinary creatinine excretion (U cr , mg/24 h...

...). The patient sustained minor effects of both renal biopsy and corticotherapy. Percutaneous renal biopsy is justified in the very elderly because the risk of mortality and morbidity related to corticotherapy outweigh the risk related to percutaneous renal biopsy, providing high-risk patients are excluded...

...Massimo Melappioni; Massimo Baldassari; Sergio Saldini; Romolo Radicioni; Nello Panichi Thymopentine is a synthetic immunomodulator that positively affects T-lymphocyte maturation, reproduction and differentiation. In elderly uremic patients nonresponders to hepatitis B vaccine, the administration...

...Richard M. O’Donovan; Oscar H. Gutierrez; Joseph L. Izzo, Jr. In 17 elderly patients, 19 angioplasties (17 nonostial, 2 ostial) were performed to treat acute decreases in renal function caused by high-grade renal artery stenosis in patients considered to be high-risk surgical candidates. Seventeen...

... or of their effectiveness, quality or safety. The publisher and the editor(s) disclaim responsibility for any injury to persons or property resulting from any ideas, methods, instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. Infections Drugs Renal disease Elderly Tropics Nephron 49: 119...

... nonhypertensive men; group 4 consisted of older hypertensive men. Reduced urinary prostaglandin E 2 excretion was seen in the elderly hypertensive group but not the young hypertensives. Thus, when all hypertensives were compared to control the reduced prostaglandin E 2 excretion was accounted for primarily...

...Brajesh N. Agarwal; Franklin G. Cabebe Renal acidification in healthy elderly subjects was studied using the short ammonium chloride loading test. No differences in basal urinary acid excretion or urinary pH between elderly and younger subjects were found. After the acid load, the net acid...

...S. Heiwe; A. Tollbäck; N. Clyne Muscle function declines with age and progressive uraemia. We examined whether elderly predialysis patients could improve thigh muscle function, walking capacity, and functional mobility to the same extent as elderly healthy subjects when participating in 12 weeks...