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Query: UMLS:C0022672 (acute tubular necrosis)
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A review of 85 patients aged 60 years or more, treated in a southern Indian hospital for conditions requiring renal biopsy, showed that diffuse poliferative glomerulonephritis was the most frequent diagnosis, being present in 24 cases of whom 11 had elevated serum streptococcal antibody titres. Infections were also important in 2 patients with amyloidosis secondary to tuberculosis, in 3 patients with acute tubular necrosis following infectious gastroenteritis and in a patient with acute pyaemic interstitial nephritis with septicaemia. Drugs including indigenous medicines were the other important cause of renal disease, being implicated in 11 cases.
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PMID:Medical renal disease in the elderly in a southern Indian hospital. 338 Feb 27