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Pulmonary Renal Syndrome

Definition: Diffuse alveolar hemorrhage + Glomerulonephritis
Presentation (Pulmonary and renal manifestations can occur weeks apart):
polyangiitis, Microscopic ... sclerosis • Anti-Glomerular ... Basement Membrane ... ab, anti-GBM ab ... differential #diagnosis #nephrology
Summary of characteristic abnormalities of selected glomerular diseases
Light Microscopy (LM) - Immunofluorescence Microscopy (IM) - Electron
(IM) - Electron ... Microscopy (EM) ... Amyloid RPGN • Anti-GBM ... polyangiitis #glomerular ... #diseases #nephrology
Anti-GIomeruIar Basement Membrane Disease (Goodpasture's Disease)

What is it? A small vessel vasculitis with circulating antibodies directed
Anti-GIomeruIar ... Diagnosis: • Anti-GBM ... weeks By Tess Litchman ... #Membrane #Disease ... AntiGBM #diagnosis #nephrology
Rapidly Progressive Glomerulonephritis (RPGN) 
 - Loss of kidney function over a short period of tirne
disease (hematuria ... post-infectious GN Anti-Glomerular ... Basement Membrane ... staining on IF • No EM ... Differential #Diagnosis #Nephrology
Membranoproliferative Glomerulonephritis (MPGN) AKA: Mesangiocapillary GN
 • Active Urine Sediment (dysmorphic RBC, RBC casts, +/- proteinuria)
(Dense deposit disease ... immune deposits on EM ... microangiopathy (TMA), anti-phospholipid ... Glomerulonephritis #MPGN #nephrology ... #diagnosis #renal