Renal injury in hematopoietic cell transplant recipients may be related to a combination of factors including chemotherapy, radiation, infection, immunosuppressive agents, ischemia, and ...

Background Interstitial fibrosis in lupus nephritis (LN) is often infiltrated by immune cells but typically regarded as ...

The application of molecular techniques to characterize clinical kidney biopsies has the potential to provide insights into glomerular diseases that cannot be revealed by traditional renal pathology.

Patients with moderate to severe diabetic glomerulosclerosis had higher risks. The presence and severity of diabetic glomerulosclerosis appear to be important factors in the prognosis of patients with ...

Following the landmark discovery in 1965 of the Australian antigen, subsequently renamed the hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg), Combes and coworkers first described the occurrence of membranous ...

Each kidney is made up of approximately one million glomeruli. These filter nitrogenous wastes (like urea and creatinine) from the blood, passing through the tuft of capillaries that make up a ...

Glomerular disease in LN is a dynamic process with the potential for glomerular lesions to transform from one pattern to another. 1-4 Adjacent glomeruli may show different degrees of involvement. The ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Treatment of glomerular disease has a hard endpoint, Brad H. Rovin, MD, FACP, FASN, said — slowing progression ...

The etiology of proteinuria following kidney transplantation includes recurrent glomerulopathy (focal segmental glomerulosclerosis, membranoproliferative glomerulosclerosis), de novo glomerulopathy ...

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