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Diagnose This (July 23, 2018)
What is your diagnosis? The images show thickened tubular basement membranes on PAS stain and kappa restricted staining of the…
Peritubular Giant Cells
When giant cells surround tubules This renal biopsy was taken from a young woman with elevated serum creatinine (4.3 mg/dL),…
Light Chain Deposition Disease
The immunofluorescence in cases of monoclonal immunoglobulin deposition disease is characterized by linear tubular basement membrane staining. In these cases,…
Pushing Glass (June 22, 2018)
The patient is an 80 year-old male who presents with fatigue and a creatinine of 6.5 mg/dl. He was in…
Pushing Glass (January 26, 2018)
An otherwise asymptomatic 65-year-old man presents for medical evaluation after 15 years of not seeing a physician. He was noted…
Light Chain Deposition Disease
An elderly patient presents to nephrology for a rising creatinine. Baseline creatinine was 2.1 mg/dl six weeks prior but is…
Light Chain Deposition Disease and Light Chain Proximal Tubulopathy
An elderly but previously healthy patient presents with weakness and fatigue and was found to have a creatinine of 3.0…
