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HIV-Related Kidney Disease: HIVAN
This biopsy is taken from a patient with HIV/AIDS who presented with an elevated serum creatinine and nephrotic range proteinuria.…
Pushing Glass
Pushing Glass (May 11, 2018)
These images are from the kidney biopsy of a 45-year-old man with a history of hypertension and bipolar disease presenting…
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Microcystic Tubular Dilatation
Microcystic dilatation of tubules is a non-specific morphologic finding associated with various diseases, including obstructive nephropathy, HIV-associated nephropathy (HIVAN), congenital…
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Congenital Nephrotic Syndrome
The biopsy from this 5-year-old male with nephrotic syndrome shows immature glomeruli without segmental glomerulosclerosis (Fig 1), associated with focal…
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IgA and APOL1
The presence of two APOL1 risk alleles, which predominantly affect populations of recent African ancestry, confers up to 29x increased…