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Twitter Poll (September 26, 2018)
ANSWER: D Halls stain is used to confirm the presence of bile casts. This technique uses the oxidizing action of…
Twitter Poll (September 6, 2018)
ANSWER: A – Thick ascending limb of the loops of the Henle THP (aka uromodulin) is an 85 -kDa glycoprotein…
Twitter Post (August 30, 2018)
ANSWER: B Type II (mixed) cryoglobulinemia is characterized by immune-complexes containing a monoclonal Ig (usually IgM) that have an RF…
Twitter Poll (August 22, 2018)
ANSWER: D Anti-GBM disease is a rare small vessel vasculitis that affects glomerular and pulmonary capillaries. The majority of patients…
Twitter Poll (August 15, 2018)
ANSWER: D TMA is a lesion with multiple etiologies including HUS, TTP, STEC- HUS, complement dysregulation (atypical HUS), malignant HTN,…
Twitter Poll (August 1, 2018)
ANSWER: A The criteria for acute T-cell mediated rejection Banff grade IA includes interstitial inflammation involving >25% of non-sclerotic cortical…
Twitter Poll (July 26, 2018)
ANSWER: C The patient has a Diffuse Lupus Nephritis, Class IV-S (A). Although biopsy shows focal and segmental proliferative glomerulonephritis…
Twitter Poll (July 18, 2018)
ANSWER: 20-30% In a case series by Boils et al. which included 49 patients with GN due to IE, 28%…
Twitter Poll (June 28, 2018)
ANSWER: A This is true. In contrast, a diagnosis of combined class IV and class V lupus nephritis is warranted…
Twitter Poll (June 20, 2018)
ANSWER: D While the majority of cryoglobulinemic GNs do not show ultrastructural organization in deposits by EM, classically described deposits…
Twitter Poll (June 13, 2018)
ANSWER: C In patients older than 60 y/o, MGN is associated with malignancy in 20-30% of cases. The lung is…
Twitter Poll (June 6, 2018)
ANSWER: B Hodgkin lymphoma and less often other lymphoproliferative disorders have been associated in the pathogenesis of minimal change disease…
Twitter Poll (May 30, 2018)
ANSWER: C The kidney is the most common organ affected by cholesterol emboli in about 75% of the cases, followed…
Twitter Poll (May 23, 2018)
True! Histologic evidence of acute tissue injury in AABMR includes 1 or more of the following: microvascular inflammation (glomerulitis and/or…
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…