Glomerular Capillary Wall Thickening on H&E – A Case of Membranous GN
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 [...]
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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 [...]
What Is Crescentic Glomerulonephritis?
Glomerular crescents are dramatic lesions. That, together with their often rapid and devastating clinical presentation, help to account for the prominent attention they [...]
Recap of AJKD Blog’s coverage of #KidneyWk 2015
Check out all of the coverage of the American Society of Nephrology’s 2015 Kidney Week in San Diego, California, by AJKD Blog’s Matt Sparks, Joel Topf, Edgar Lerma, [...]
#KidneyWk 2015: Not Just VEGF: Diabetes and the Endothelium
Diabetes and Diabetic Nephropathy (DN) were appropriately prominent topics at this year’s meeting. Thursday’s afternoon session, “Glomerular Endothelial Cell Injury [...]
Test Your Knowledge: Proliferative Glomerulonephritis
Proliferative glomerulonephritis (GN) is defined as an increase in glomerular cellularity due to the influx of leukocytes and/or the proliferation of native cells. There are [...]
Recap of eAJKD’s coverage of Kidney Week 2013
Check out all of the coverage of the American Society of Nephrology’s 2013 Kidney Week in Atlanta, Georgia, by eAJKD’s Kenar Jhaveri, Joel Topf, Magdalena Madero, Craig [...]
Kidney Week 2013: Pathologic Classification of Renal Disorders
Pathologic Classification of Renal Disorders The promulgation of classification schema have always been a central interest of pathologists, as their framework reflects [...]
eAJKD’s Coverage of the American Society of Nephrology’s Kidney Week 2013
For the second year, eAJKD will be providing coverage of selected research news and presentations from the American Society of Nephrology’s Kidney Week. This year’s [...]
Ischemic Injury to the Kidney – Where is the lesion?
In the February issue of the American Journal of Kidney Diseases, Sharma et al report a case of allograft renal cortical infarction. A 78-year-old woman on cyclosporine [...]