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Diagnose This (August 22, 2022)
This is a 3 month post-transplant kidney biopsy from a patient with ESRD due to polycystic kidney disease. She recently…
Diagnose This (January 10, 2022)
This is the H&E from the frozen tissue submitted for IF examined under fluorescent light. In a patient with anemia,…
Twitter Poll (December 23, 2020)
Answer: D The histologic features of a thrombotic microangiopathy (TMA) are non-specific as to etiology and include both acute and…
Art of Medicine: Thrombotic Microangiopathy
The above painting shows a glomerulus containing capillary loop fibrin thrombi, an arteriole with onion-skinning, and acute tubular injury, findings…
KDIGO Connections: SLE and TMA
Remember to think about TMA lesions in your patients with lupus!
Disease Week: Onco-Nephrology
Monday Onco-nephrology is a rapidly developing area of nephrology designed to help address and prevent kidney problems and the many…
KDIGO Connections: Atypical Hemolytic-Uremic Syndrome
How do you treat patients with atypical hemolytic-uremic syndrome? Learn more about treatment and atypical hemolytic-uremic syndrome through KDIGO Connections!…
Scleroderma
The patient is a 32-year-old African American female who presents with hypertensive urgency, positive ANA, positive anti-RNA polymerase III antibody,…
Circumferential Mesangial Interposition
Mesangial cell interposition between GBMs is an unusual and not fully understood process. In this episode, Dr. Silva discusses where…
Diagnose This (August 27, 2018)
What is this finding and what is the likely etiology? …
Twitter Poll (August 15, 2018)
ANSWER: D TMA is a lesion with multiple etiologies including HUS, TTP, STEC- HUS, complement dysregulation (atypical HUS), malignant HTN,…
Endocapillary Hypercellularity in Thrombotic Microangiopathy
This renal biopsy performed on a 14-year-old boy shows changes diagnostic of a thrombotic microangiopathy (TMA). These changes include frequent…
Anti-VEGF Effect
This biopsy was taken from an older adult man with acute kidney injury and non-nephrotic range proteinuria. His medical history…