Renal vasculitis: Increasingly a disease of the elderly?

Nephron - Clinical Practice

Volumn 97, Issue 4, 2004, Pages

  Satchell, S C ^a,c   Nicholls, A J ^b   D'Souza, R J ^b   Beaman, M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL DEVON AND EXETER HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c SOUTHMEAD HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Antineutrophil cytoplasmic autoantibody; Elderly patients; Microscopic polyangiitis; Renal vasculitis; Wegener's granulomatosis

Indexed keywords

CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; NEUTROPHIL CYTOPLASMIC ANTIBODY; PREDNISOLONE;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEMODIALYSIS; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; MALE; MORTALITY; ONSET AGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RECORDING; RENOVASCULAR DISEASE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIBODIES, ANTINEUTROPHIL CYTOPLASMIC; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; ENGLAND; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; INCIDENCE; KIDNEY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYARTERITIS NODOSA; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RENAL DIALYSIS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; VASCULITIS; WEGENER GRANULOMATOSIS;

EID: 4444228644     PISSN: 16602110     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000079173     Document Type: Article

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