Cast Morphology As A Clue to the Cause of Acute Tubular Injury
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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Oxalate Nephropathy Associated with Jejunoileal Bypass: Recurrence After Transplantation
A 50-year-old white woman with diabetes, hypertension, and morbid obesity underwent gastric bypass. The surgery helped the patient to reduce weight but progressive renal [...]
Kidney Transplantation in Identical Twins
A young man who had an identical twin donor was recently transplanted. The cause of end-stage disease was IgA nephropathy. The donor had no renal dysfunction or proteinuria. [...]
Changes in ISN/RPS Classification of Lupus Nephritis
The renal biopsy plays an important part in the management of systemic lupus erythematosus. It helps determine the most appropriate initial therapy and provides prognostic [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Unexpected Pathology in a Post-Transplantation Protocol Biopsy
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 [...]
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 [...]
Transplacental Transmission of Autoimmune Glomerular Disease
In a recent article in AJKD, Al-Rabadi et al present a case of a pregnancy patient with active membranous nephropathy (MN) and circulating autoantibodies to PLA2R, the major [...]
Practical Tips for the Diagnosis of Acute Antibody-Mediated Rejection
A recent installment of the AJKD Atlas of Renal Pathology II gives a succinct summary of the morphologic criteria that may be used to diagnose acute antibody-mediated [...]