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Art of Medicine: Proliferative Glomerulonephriits with Monoclonal Immunoglobulin Deposits
The above painting shows normal bone marrow, containing erythroid and myeloid precursors at various stages of maturation and normal trabeculae.…
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Art of Medicine: Proliferative Glomerulonephritis with Monoclonal Immunoglobulin Deposits
Small destructive B cell or plasma cell clones may be responsible for disease development. The above painting shows normal bone…
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Art of Medicine: Monoclonal Gammopathies of Renal Significance
Monoclonal Gammopathies of Renal Significance The above painting is of a bone marrow biopsy showing replacement of the hematopoietic elements…
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Type 1 Cryoglobulinemic Glomerulonephritis
The patient is a 75 year-old female who presents with proteinuria, a necrotic skin lesion on her lower extremity, and…
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Disease Week: Monoclonal Gammopathy of Renal Significance
Disease Week: Monoclonal Gammopathy of Renal Significance Summary: Renal disease caused by parenchymal deposition of circulating monoclonal immunoglobulins (mIg)…
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Light Chain Cast Nephropathy
A 75-year-old female is found to have a creatinine of 4.0 mg/dL on a routine laboratory examination. At the hospital,…
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Art of Medicine: Fanconi Syndrome
This painting shows the transition between a proximal tubule and the thick descending limb of the loop of Henle. The…
![AL-Type Amyloidosis, teaching point, arkana laboratories, renal pathology, kidney biopsy](https://www.arkanalabs.com/wp-content/uploads/Figure-1-copy-10-432x288.jpg)
AL Amyloidosis
A 70 year-old female presents with nephrotic range proteinuria and a creatinine of 1.2. She was in her normal level…
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Art of Medicine: Light Chain Proximal Tubulopathy
The painting above shows light chain proximal tubulopathy with crystals, which is one type of a monoclonal gammopathy of renal…
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Twitter Poll (December 7, 2018)
ANSWER: D MGRS was introduced to acknowledge a clonal plasma cell or B lymphocyte proliferation causing a renal lesion in…
![PAS negative intratubular casts in renal biopsy at Arkana Laboratories](https://www.arkanalabs.com/wp-content/uploads/xx-copy-432x288.jpg)
Diagnose This (November 12, 2018)
What is your diagnosis and what do you need to prove it? …
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Diagnose This! (August 6, 2018)
What is your diagnosis? This is a complicated case. The photomicrographs show a membranoproliferative pattern glomerulonephritis (MPGN) with IgG Lambda…
![Kappa-Restricted Light Chain Deposition Disease, renal cortex](https://www.arkanalabs.com/wp-content/uploads/x39-copy-432x288.jpg)
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…