Meloney Oliveira, MD1st year fellow Division of Nephrology Rush University Medical Center *The patient history in this post is fictitious, but represents how a patient with these biopsy findings might present Case*: A 40-year-old with a 16-year history of heroin…
This past weekend, Arkana Laboratories hosted another live pathology session covering part II of all things intratubular casts (now focused on crystalline intratubular casts). Dr. Zeljko Dvanajscak helmed the microscope, taking viewers through the 4 major categories of…
One of my mentors, Dr. Fred Silva, frequently reminds us that “the kidney has a limited number of ways to respond to an innumerable number of injuries”. For this reason, studying kidney pathology is challenging and fun. Since…
The goal of the GlomCon Teaching Platform is to enable Nephrologists, Nephropathologists, and trainees in Medicine, Nephrology, and Pathology to connect with each other to 1) Discuss challenging cases, 2) Share clinical experiences and 3) Obtain the expertise of participating…
One of the difficulties in doing molecular research on the kidney is the diversity highly specialized cells that exist in the glomerulus. As a result, it is important to be able to isolate glomerular tissue from the surrounding…
An elderly woman presented for evaluation to the rheumatology service with arthritis and neuropathy. She was hypertensive and had microscopic hematuria with dysmorphic red cells on microscopy. Her creatinine was 1.6 which had not changed in the previous…
A man in his 30s with no significant medical history presented to the ED following a fainting episode. Routine screening found an abnormal creatinine, hematuria and proteinuria. Serological work-up including complements were negative. In view of a slowly…
A 47 year old man with ESRD secondary to a chronic TMA presented 3 months following a renal transplant with a rising creatinine (1.44 mg/dl from a baseline of 0.9 mg/dl). His prograf level had ranged from 5-7….
A man in his early 60s was being treated for metastatic adenocarcinoma of the lung for 2 years. Recently, he had been complaining of increasing hemoptysis and a PET CT was performed which showed progression of his disease….
Important new findings were recently published in relation to proteinuria and FSGS, which are definitely of interest to our community. First, the punch line: There is new evidence for a “circulating factor” in recurrent FSGS in a fascinating…
