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March 21, 2018
Collapsing Morphology

- Published: March 21, 2018
- By: David Bourne, MD
- Tags: APOL1, Collapsing glomerulopathy, Proteinuria
Collapsing glomerular lesions are aptly named, given the prominent “collapse” of glomerular tuft capillary loops. There is also hyperplasia and hypertrophy of overlying epithelial cells, and protein resorption droplets may be abundant (see arrow).