Kidney disease in the elderly: biopsy based data from 14 renal centers in Poland.

Agnieszka Perkowska-PtasińskaDominika Deborska-MaterkowskaArtur BartczakTomasz StomporTomasz LiberekBarbara Bullo-PionteckaAnna WasinskaAgnieszka SerwackaMarian KlingerJolanta ChylMichal KurigaRobert MaleckiKrzysztof MarczewskiBogdan HryniewiczTadeusz GregorczykMonika WieliczkoStanislaw NiemczykOlga RostkowskaLeszek PaczekMagdalena Durlik

Published in: BMC nephrology (2016)

Proteinuria, a dominating manifestation in elderly patients subjected to kidney biopsy was most commonly related to glomerulopathies. The relatively high prevalence of potentially curative kidney diseases in elderly individuals implicates the importance of renal biopsy in these patients.

Keyphrases

ultrasound guided
end stage renal disease
fine needle aspiration
prognostic factors
ejection fraction
middle aged
chronic kidney disease
newly diagnosed
peritoneal dialysis
electronic health record
big data
deep learning