Clinical outcomes and effects of treatment in older patients with idiopathic membranous nephropathy

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Background/Aims: Membranous nephropathy (MN) is the most common primary glomerular disease diagnosed in older patients. Few reports describe the clinical outcomes in older patients with idiopathic MN.
Methods: The outcomes of 135 patients with histologically proven MN were analyzed. ‘Older’ was defined as 60 years of age or older at the time of the renal biopsy. The rates of complete remission (CR), progression to end-stage renal disease (ESRD) and infection were compared between older and younger patients.
Results: The cumulative event rate for achieving CR was inferior (p = 0.012) and that for requiring renal replacement was higher (p = 0.015) in older patients, and they had a greater risk of infection (p = 0.005). Older age was a significant predictor of a lower rate of CR (adjusted odds ratio [OR], 0.51; 95% confidence interval [CI], 0.26 to 0.98), and was a robust predictor of infection (adjusted OR, 5.27; 95% CI, 1.31 to 21.20). Conservative treatment was associated with a lower remission rate (p = 0.036) and corticosteroid treatment was less effective in achieving CR (p = 0.014), in preventing progression to ESRD (p = 0.013) and in reducing infection (p = 0.033) in older patients. Cyclosporine treatment had similar clinical outcomes with regard to CR, ESRD progression, and infection in older patients.
Conclusions: Older age was independently associated with inferior rates of CR and greater risk of infection. Treatment modalities affected the outcomes of older patients differently in that cyclosporine treatment is predicted to be more useful than corticosteroids.

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