PMID: 15219072Jun 29, 2004Paper

Progressive deterioration in an elderly patient

Nefrología : publicación oficial de la Sociedad Española Nefrologia
R MeleroJ Martín

Abstract

Vasculitis is diagnosed with increasing frequency in the elderly. We hereby present the case of an 84-year-old male, who had weight loss, low-degree fever, anemia and epigastric pain. After 14 days of study with the tentative diagnosis of digestive neoplasia, a progressive renal insufficiency was detected. This clinical picture was secondary to ANCA-positive vasculitis. The case poses the differential diagnosis of non-oliguric acute renal failure (FRA) in elder people and the systematics of the study of renal insufficiency in individuals with previously unknown renal function. Also, this patient's history emphasizes the importance of acute deterioration of renal function as a guiding symptom for orienting the interpretation of clinical data. In the present case, a diagnostic hypothesis based only in the pursue of an occult digestive tumor misguided the attention from the main cause of the disease.

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