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Diagnose This 3/11/2024
What is your diagnosis in a patient with nephrotic syndrome? The electron photomicrograph demonstrates frequent subepithelial deposits along the glomerular…
How Times Have Changed! A Cornucopia of Antigens for Membranous Nephropathy
Membranous Nephropathy, or Membranous Glomerulopathy, is an autoimmune disease-causing nephrotic syndrome in which there is subepithelial deposition of IgG and…
NELL1 Is A Target Antigen In Malignancy-Associated Membranous Nephropathy
Membranous nephropathy is a leading cause of nephrotic syndrome. On renal biopsy, immunofluorescence shows granular capillary loop deposits, and holes…
Disease Week: MGMID
Tuesday: Let’s start with a poll. You have a 25-year-old female patient with a positive ANA and proteinuria. On a…
Twitter Poll (June 9, 2021)
Answer: A, Minimal change disease Minimal change disease is classically seen in young children and usually is identified by a…
Scanning EM of a Proteinuric Glomerulus
This eyeSCANdy image shows scanning EM of a proteinuric glomerulus with capillary loop showing widening and partial loss of interdigitating…
Chronic Cyclosporine Toxicity in Pediatric Nephrotic Syndrome
This biopsy is from a 9-year-old boy who developed pediatric nephrotic syndrome in the first year of life and has…
Art of Medicine: Minimal Change Disease
The above painting shows podocytes with foot processes extending along the glomerular basement membrane of neighboring capillary loops. Effacement of…
Diagnose This (April 22, 2019)
What is this finding and what diagnoses does it imply? …
Twitter Poll (April 17, 2019)
ANSWER: D Collapsing glomerulopathy has been associated with certain infectious disease including HIV, Hepatitis C, HTLV-1, parvovirus B19, cytomegalovirus, tuberculosis,…
IgA nephropathy with something extra…
The biopsy is from a 61-year-old man with a history of intermittent microscopic hematuria for many years who presents with…
Diagnose This (October 29, 2018)
What class of disease does this patient have and how did they present clinically? …
One little, two little, three little findings…
This biopsy came to us for evaluation of nephrotic syndrome. The patient is a Hispanic gentleman in his late 80s,…
