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Disease Week: Membranous Glomerulopathy

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Membranous glomerulopathy: Looking forward Many excellent reviews are available that detail the current state of knowledge in membranous glomerulopathy so I will not attempt to round out this #DiseaseWeek by writing another. Instead, I would like to paint, with broad brush strokes, what I believe to be the near future of diagnostics in membranous glomerulopathy and discuss the techniques of discovery being applied today that are likely to similarly impact other types of immune complex-mediated glomerulonephritis. We live in exciting times for discovery in medicine as the tools available today are so powerful that the molecular pathogenic mechanisms of disease...
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Twitter Poll (February 6, 2019)

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Answer: B Minimal change disease is the most common glomerular disease associated with thymoma. Classically, the solid tumors most commonly associated with MN are lung, bronchus, and gastric cancers, followed by renal cell, prostate and thymoma. Other cancers reported with MN are colorectal, pancreatic, esophageal and hepatic carcinomas. References: Ronco PM. Paraneoplastic glomerulopathies: New insights into an old entity. Kidney Int 56: 355–377, 1999 Bacchetta J, Juillard L, et al. Paraneoplastic glomerular diseases and malignancies. Crit Rev Oncol Hematol 70: 39–58, 2009 Lefaucheur C, Stengel B, et al. Membranous nephropathy and cancer: Epidemiologic evidence and determinants of high-risk cancer association....
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Art of Medicine: Membranous Glomerulopathy

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The painting above depicts membranous glomerulopathy.   A single glomerular capillary loop with confluent subepithelial and intramembranous electron dense deposits along the glomerular basement membrane is shown.  Podocytes are showing foot process effacement and microvillous transformation, which results in loss of the filtration barrier leading to nephrotic syndrome.  An electron micrograph from a patient with membranous glomerulopathy is shown below. Membranous glomerulopathy is the second most common cause of nephrotic syndrome in adults.  A majority of cases are considered primary with autoantibodies directed against the podocyte antigens phospholipase A2 receptor (PLA2R, ~70% of cases) or thrombospondin type 1 domain containing 7A...
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KDIGO Connections: Membranous Glomerulopathy

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Welcome to the first post in our new series KDIGO Connections, a series in which we are asking our nephrologist colleagues to educate us in real-world experiences treating kidney disease. In this series, Dr. David Bourne will be kicking it off with KDIGO guidelines for a kidney disease in visual abstract form. Our hope is that these posts will foster discussion regarding these diseases and how different providers approach them. Please share any points, pearls, questions, caveats, thoughts, or experience you have on the presented disease letting us all learn from your experience!  
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Membranous Glomerulopathy in Obesity-Related Glomerulopathy

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The patient is a 57-year-old female, with a history of morbid obesity and persistent mild proteinuria (approximately 1 gm), who now presents with nephrotic syndrome and a UPCR of 10.5 g/g. Renal function is normal with a serum creatinine of 0.5 mg/dl. The biopsy shows marked glomerulomegaly with focal areas of perihilar segmental glomerulosclerosis (Fig 1 and 2). Additionally, the capillary loops appear mildly thickened, with frequent subepithelial fuchsinophilic deposits on trichrome stain and diffuse and global holes and spikes seen on silver stain (Fig 3). Immunofluorescence shows global capillary loop granular staining for IgG, C3, kappa, and lambda (Fig...
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Interstitial Foam Cells

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This 52-year-old female underwent a renal biopsy as part of the workup for nephrotic syndrome. The biopsy is diagnostic for PLA2R-positive membranous glomerulopathy with mild glomerular and tubulointerstitial chronic injury (not shown). Interestingly, the interstitium shows frequent clusters of interstitial foam cells (see image). While interstitial foam cells are commonly associated with Alport syndrome, they may actually be seen in a wide range of renal diseases resulting in heavy proteinuria, such as focal segmental glomerulosclerosis (FSGS), membranous glomerulopathy, IgA nephropathy and in diseases with a membranoproliferative pattern of glomerular injury. While it has been shown that interstitial foam cells contain...
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Diabetic Glomerulosclerosis with Superimposed Diseases

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Diabetic glomerulosclerosis is one of the most common causes of nephrotic range proteinuria in adults. When the clinical course of these patients is atypical, a renal biopsy is of utmost importance to rule out superimposed or other concomitant diseases. Figure 1 (PAS stain) shows a representative glomerulus from a renal biopsy performed on a 65 year old Caucasian female with longstanding history of type 2 diabetes mellitus, who experienced a sudden increase in proteinuria from a baseline UPCR of 1.2 g/g to 7.5 g/g. The glomerulus shows severe mesangial matrix expansion with frequent large nodule formation, characteristic of diabetic glomerulosclerosis....
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Diagnose This (June 25, 2018)

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What immunofluorescence stain is shown here, what is the immune complex deposition pattern and what disease does it represent?   ​   ​ ​   ​   ​ ​   ​   ​   ​   ​   ​   ​   ​   ​   ​   ​   ​   ​   ​   ​   ​   ​   ​   ​   ​   ​   ​   ​   ​   ​   ​   ​   ​   ​   ​   ​   ​   ​   ​   ​ ​   ​...
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