0 a kidney disease in which the glomeruli (= tiny blood vessels that remove waste products from the blood into the urine) are inflamed:
The other four digit sub-codes under 580 are rapidly progressive glomerulonephritis (580.4) and other specified acute glomerulonephritis (580.8), which were included.
Rapidly progressive focal necrotising glomerulonephritis is common, and a leading cause of mortality.
Pulmonary haemorrhage with respiratory failure may be present in either of the three forms of crescentic glomerulonephritis discussed above.
The appearances were those of a mesangio-proliferative glomerulonephritis.
Crescentic glomerulonephritis should be considered in any elderly patient presenting with acute renal failure associated with haematuria, red cell casts and proteinuria.
Renal complications included acute renal failure, defined as an increase of serum creatinine by >0.5 mg/dl (44 mmol/l) during admission, or glomerulonephritis.
Two patients were diagnosed with other forms of glomerulonephritis and long term follow-up was not provided for any of the patients.
However, 99 % of the acute glomerulonephritis admissions were to fully enumerated hospitals, and therefore the influence of sampling would be small.
