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Apolipoprotein A-IV Amyloidosis
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Apolipoprotein A-IV Amyloidosis

This renal biopsy from a 71-year-old female, who presented with progressively worsening renal failure, shows unremarkable glomeruli by light microscopy…

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Anti-Brush Border Antibody Disease IF

These photomicrographs show the classic immunofluorescence staining pattern for anti-LRP2 nephropathy, a disease that leads to severe renal tubular injury…

IgG4-Related Tubulointerstitial Nephritis
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IgG4-Related Tubulointerstitial Nephritis

IgG4-related disease is a systemic inflammatory and sclerosing disorder which may affect a wide range of different organs including the…


Calcium Phosphate Deposits
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Calcium Phosphate Deposits

Calcium phosphate deposits Calcium phosphate deposits within the kidney may be seen in the setting of hypercalcemia/ hypercalciuria or hyperphosphatemia/…

Immunotactoid Glomerulopathy
By L. Nich Cossey, MD
Malakoplakia
Diagnose This!

Diagnose This! (October 9, 2017)

What is your diagnosis?   …

By L. Nich Cossey, MD

Monoclonal Gammopathy
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Monoclonal Gammopathy of Renal Significance

The renal biopsy shown here has an MPGN pattern of injury by light microscopy. Routine immunofluorescence on the fresh (unfixed)…

chronic transplant arteriopathy
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Chronic Transplant Arteriopathy

This image shows an arterial cross-section with features of chronic transplant arteriopathy (a.k.a. sclerosing transplant vasculopathy and chronic allograft vasculopathy).…

IgG4-Related Disease
By L. Nich Cossey, MD

Sjogrens Syndrome
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Sjogrens

Sjgrens syndrome is an autoimmune disease involving primarily the lacrimal and salivary glands. However, up to 27% of patients will…

Fabry Disease
By L. Nich Cossey, MD
Chronic Active Tubulointerstitial Nephritis
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Chronic Active Tubulointerstitial Nephritis

Chronic tubulointerstitial nephritis in children may be secondary to a number of possible etiologies such as drug and other exogenous…


Malakoplakia
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Malakoplakia

Learn about Malakoplakia An adult patient in the mid-fifties with a deceased donor renal transplant for three years (primary disease…

Patrick D. Walker, MD renal pathologist at arkana laboratories
By Patrick D. Walker, MD
Renal hemosiderosis
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Hemosiderin

Renal hemosiderosis is a rare etiology of kidney injury that occurs secondary to diseases with chronic intravascular hemolysis. The most…

Megalocytic Interstitial Nephritis
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Megalocytic Interstitial Nephritis

This biopsy shows a chronic active interstitial nephritis with numerous interstitial foamy macrophages containing abundant PAS-positive cytoplasmic granules (Fig 1-3).…