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Collidescope Ep. 1 | What Happens when IgA Nephropathy and Fibrillary Glomerulopathy Collide?
What happens when two diseases occur at the same time? Does one influence the other? How is kidney function affected?…

ABMR, ALECT, and Fibrillary Glomerulopathy
Welcome back to another interesting case in our Banff and Beyond series. To begin, the history is a 59 y/o…

Diagnose This (August 3, 2020)
What is your leading diagnosis when seeing this interesting IgG staining pattern by IF? …
KDIGO Connections: Fibrillary Glomerulopathy
If you have taken care of patients with fibrillary glomerulopathy, what has been the outcome?

Disease Week: Fibrillary Glomerulopathy
Monday Did you know Fibrillary Glomerulopathy was described in the 1980s? While case reports existed before, in 1983 a series…

Twitter Poll (January 9, 2019)
ANSWER: C- DNAJB9 DNAJB9 immunohistochemical (IHC) stain is a quick and inexpensive tool used to confirm the diagnosis of Fibrillary…

DNAJB9 helps uncover dual pathology…
This case illustrates the utility of immunohistochemical staining for DNAJB9, a recently described biomarker for fibrillary glomerulopathy (see reference). The…

Crescentic Fibrillary Glomerulopathy
Fibrillary glomerulopathy is a rare disorder of unknown etiology and pathophysiology, which is characterized by deposition of course, randomly-oriented, non-branching…

Diagnose This! (June 4, 2018)
The patient is a 67 y/o Caucasian female with slowly progressive kidney disease and 2.3 gm/24 hr proteinuria. Aside from…

Twitter Poll (May 2, 2018)
ANSWER: DNAJB9 DnaJ homolog subfamily B member 9 (DNAJB9) is a novel proteomic tissue biomarker for Fibrillary glomerulonephritis (FGN) that…

Pushing Glass (August 8, 2017)
A 69-year-old man with past medical history of hypertension presents with nephrotic syndrome and 7 gm/day proteinuria. Serological studies are…

Fibrillary Glomerulopathy
Commonly heard after we give the diagnosis: I heard about this in Fellowship This 62-year-old African-American just completed treatment for…