#PathPointer: Masked Deposits on Kidney Biopsy
PathPointers highlight important everyday teaching points when reviewing kidney histology. These brief and easy-to-read blog posts include real clinical images to demonstrate [...]
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#PathPointer: Immune Deposits Involving Tubules — A Case of Anti-LRP2 Nephritis
PathPointers highlight important everyday teaching points when reviewing kidney histology. These brief and easy-to-read blog posts include real clinical images to demonstrate [...]
Congo Red: From Amyloid to Aspirin
Congo red is synonymous with amyloidosis. The visually stunning apple green birefringence lights up the eyes and minds of pathologists and nephrologists. Like many [...]
#PathPointer: Congo Red-Positive Always Means Amyloid Deposits, Right?
Amyloidosis, fibrillary glomerulonephritis (FGN), and immunotactoid glomerulopathy (ITG) are all characterized by renal deposits with an organized substructure under high [...]
PET Scan of the Kidney Reveals An Unusual Finding: Not All That Glitters Is Cancer
A young man was treated with chemotherapy for diffuse large B cell lymphoma (DLBCL) involving the kidney, liver, and lungs. After 2 cycles, PET imaging showed resolution of [...]
Glomerulitis Without Evidence of Antibody-Mediated Rejection
PathPointers is a new type of blog post that will highlight important everyday teaching points when reviewing kidney histology. These blog posts will be brief and [...]
“Green Smoothie” Oxalate Nephropathy
A recent AJKD Teaching Case by Makkapati et al describes a 65-year-old patient with Roux-en-Y gastric bypass who developed acute kidney injury (AKI) in the setting of a [...]
Role of Donor Pre-Implantation Biopsies in Kidney Transplantation
PathPointers is a new type of blog post that will highlight important everyday teaching points when reviewing kidney histology. These blog posts will be brief and [...]
Light Chain Proximal Tubulopathy – The Tip of the Iceberg?
In recent years, there has been increased recognition of the spectrum of kidney diseases associated with paraproteinemias. The fact that the pathogenetically related [...]
C4 Glomerulopathy: Should We Accept it As a New Disease?
A recent article published by AJKD reports 3 patients with nephrotic syndrome, two of whom also had hematuria. Kidney biopsy revealed mesangioproliferative [...]