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05.05 - Glomerular Structure, Injury (Nichols, Handorf) - Based on word doc Flashcards

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Hyaline Sclerosis in HTN vs DM

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In HTN, just afferent arteriole; In DM, both

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Anti-GBM disease is associated with

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Smoking, being male

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Location of In situ immune complex formation and deposition

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Subepithelial

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What does Trichrome stain highlight

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Collagen

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Treatment of Anti-GBM Ab disease

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Removing them with Plasmapharesis

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IgA Nephropathy is due to

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Production of Abnormal IgA that self-aggregates and binds IgG –> immune complex formation –> Mesangial cell activation –> Complement-mediated injurious inflammation

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What stain highlights the GBM

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Jones silver stain

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What is becoming the most common type of Crescentic Glomerulonephritis

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Pauci-immune

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3 most common types of glomerular disease

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(1) HTN, (2) Diabetic, (3) Immune-mediated

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Most common cause of glomerular disease

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Hypertension

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Platelet mechanisms of glomerular injury in immune-mediated disease

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Release AA metabolites

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In situ immune complex formation with Ab’s against podocyte cell membrane antigens causes great majority of

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Membranous Glomerulonephritis

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Calcium binding properties

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Features of Entactin

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What does Global Glomerular Disease refer to

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Involves all of a single glomerulus

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Feedback loop with hypertensive kidney disease

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Glomerular Disease causes HTN, and HTN causes glomerular disease

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What happens to GBM in DM

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Glycosylated plasma proteins get trapped –> GBM gets thickened

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What does Diffuse Mesangial Sclerosis mean

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Sclerosis of all the mesangium in one glomerulus

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What causes Crescentic Glomerulonephritis

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Leakage of Plasma Proteins into urinary space (particularly when mixed with Ab’s, Immune Complexes, Inflammatory Cytokines, Inflammaotry cells, and ROS)

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Location of immune complex deposition in Post-Strep Glomerulonephritis

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Subepithelial

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Important Concept: ____ is a major mechanisms of glomerular injury

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Antibody deposition

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Mutations in what result in congenital nephrotic syndromes?

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Nephrin and Podocin

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Urine in Malignant HTN

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Marked Proteinuria, Microscopic Hematuria

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Features of Perlecan

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Strong negative charge - prevents Albumin from entering

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Crescent Glomerulonephritis is associated with

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Rapid Progression of Disease

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What activates the Complement pathway in IgA Nephropathy

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Mesangial cells are activated in response to binding and phagocytosing immune complexes –> Proliferate and increase production of ECM proteins and cytokines

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Features of Laminin

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Binds to other components

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Features of Entactin

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Calcium binding properties

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Form of Glomerulonephritis w/ localization of immune complexes in the mesangium

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IgA Nephropathy

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Subepithelial Humps

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Pattern of immune complex deposits in Post-Strep Glomerulonephritis EM

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Leukocyte mechanisms of glomerular injury and malfunction

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Leakage of lysosomal proteases and ROS, Production of AA metabolites that reduce GFR

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What is the Non-Collagenous Domain

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Non-helical globular domain

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Infectious diseases involve what parts of nephron

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Tubules and Interstitium far more often than glomeruli

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What are Thrombotic Microangiopathies

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Loss of normal endothelial function needed to prevent thrombosis

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Result of Foot Process Effacement

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Retraction and loss of SPD; Detachment from GBM and degradation of GBM –> Plasma protein linkage

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What mediates the accelerated aging in DM

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Advanced Glycation end-products (AGE)

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What is Arterio-Nephro-Sclerosis

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(1) Narrowing of lumen from plasma leakage; (2) Gradual ischemic atrophy of glomerulus; (3) End result is global sclerosis of glomeruli

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In whom is malignant HTN more common

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Black males around 40

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What tends to have a Linear pattern on immunofluorescence and be invisible on EM

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Anti-GBM Ab deposition

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2 diseases associated leading to Arterionephrosclerosis

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Wire Loops

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Extensive confluent subendothelial deposits thickening the capillary walls

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Nephrin and its associated protein are crucial to

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Maintaining selective permeability of glomerular filtration barrier

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Gross appearance of kidney in malignant HTN

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Flea-Bitten

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Crescent-shaped area of inflammation w/ proliferation of parietal epithelial cells

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Crescentic Glomerulonephritis

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2 diseases associated with ApoL1 mutation

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Arterionephrosclerosis, Focal Segmental Glomerulosclerosis

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Strong negative charge - prevents Albumin from entering

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Features of Perlecan

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What happens to arterioles in Malignant HTN

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Fibrinoid Necrosis of Arterioles

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What is Crescentic Glomerulonephritis

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Crescent-shaped area of inflammation w/ proliferation of parietal epithelial cells

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Diseases caused by Ab’s against epitope in the NC1 domain of alpha3 chain cause

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Glomerulonephritis w/ Hematuria

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Effects if DM on nephron

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Mesangial cell hypertrophy and hyperplasia; Diffuse mesangial matrix production; Podocyte injury and apoptosis; Thickening of tubular BM’s

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Most common glomerular disease

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Vascular, Hypertensive Nephropathy

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What causes the damage in IgA Nephropathy

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Complement activation generates the injurious inflammation

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In whom is end-stage renal disease due to HTN more common

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8x more common in blacks

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What can cause Crescentic Glomerulonephritis

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Leakage of plasma proteins into urinary space (particularly when mixed with Ab’s, Immune Complexes, Inflammatory Cells, and ROS)

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Renal neoplasms arise from

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Tubular Epithelium

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Result of injury to glomerular capillary endothelium

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Loss of normal endothelial function needed to prevent thrombosis

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Pattern of immune complex deposition in immunofluorescence

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Clumps, granular pattern

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Goodpasture Syndrome

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Glomerulonephritis w Hematuria, along w/ Pulmonary Hemorrhage and Hemoptysis

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What does PAS stain highlight

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Cellular cytoplasmic inclusions

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Effect of supra-normal glomerular capillary pressure on glomerulus

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GBM thickening, Mesangial Hypertrophy and Hyperplasia, Mesangial Matrix production

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When proliferating parietal epithelial cells and infiltrating macrophages and inflammatory exudate and leaked plasma create a visible crescent of inflammation around glomerular tuft of cpaillaries

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Crescentic Glomerulonephritis

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Slit Pore Diaphragm proteins that serve to bind adjacent pediceles

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Cadherin, FAT

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Glomerular diseases that involve the capillary endothelium or subendotheial portion of glomeruli tend to cause

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Site of Ab deposition in SLE

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Subendothelial

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Compensation for nephron loss requires

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Increased filtration per glomerulus and increased glomerular transcapillary pressure

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In conditions causing severe loss of protein thru slit pore diaphragms, EM frequently shows

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Fusion of Foot Processes = Effacement

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Ab against NC1 domain + Ab’s against lung basement membrane

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Goodpasture Syndrome

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Second most common glomerular disease

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Mesenchymal cells w/ phagocytic and contractile properites

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Mesangial Cells

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With what is C-ANCA associated

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Granulomatosis with Polyangiitis

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Vascular clotting disorders such as HUS, TTP, and DIC involve what part of nephron

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Glomerulus

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Anti-GBM Ab deposition tends to have what pattern

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Linear pattern on immunofluorescence and be invisible on EM

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End result of many glomerular diseases

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Fibrous replacement of glomerulus = Glomerulosclerosis

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What is hypothesized to happen in Post-Strep Glomerulonephritis

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Antigens and Ab’s arrive in glomerulus separately and form complexes in situ

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Features of Fibronectin

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Connection and adhesion of components

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Extensive confluent subendothelial deposits thickening the capillary walls

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Wire Loops

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Connection and adhesion of components

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Fibronectin

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Glomerular diseases that involve which side of glomerulus are worse

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Capillary side

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What causes the great majority of Membranous Glomerulonephritis

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In situ immune complex formation with Ab’s against podocyte cell membrane antigens

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Glomerular diseases that involve only the podocytes, slit diaphragm, or subepithelial portion of the glomeruli tend to cause

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Proteinuria

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Presentation of Malignant HTN

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Symptoms of increased intracranial pressure: Headache, Scotomas, Vomitting

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What happens to surviving nephrons after nephron loss

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Hypertrophy, with hyperplasia of glomerular and tubular cells, longer tubules

81
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Hyperplastic Arteriosclerosis + Arterial Fibrinoid Necrosis

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Malignant HTN

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What causes Flea-Bitten Kidney

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Small arteries/arterioles damaged by malignant HTN rupture all over kidney

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Toxic diseases tend to involve what part of nephron

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Tubules more than Glomeruli

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(1) Narrowing of lumen from plasma leakage; (2) Gradual ischemic atrophy of glomerulus; (3) End result is global sclerosis of glomeruli

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What is Arterio-Nephro-Sclerosis

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Glomerulonephritis w Hematuria, along w/ Pulmonary Hemorrhage and Hemoptysis

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Goodpasture Syndrome

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Histopathologic correlate of the clinical syndrome of rapidly progressive glomerulonephritis

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Crescentic Glomerulonephritis

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What does Segmental Glomerular Disease mean

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Involves only part of glomerulus

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Membranous glomerulopathy is characterized by

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Increased glomerular basement membrane, w/out an increase in cells

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What percent of glomerular disease in children is primary? In adults?

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With what is P-ANCA associated

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Microscopic Polyangiitis, Churg-Strauss

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Cell binding of basement membrane is mediated mostly by

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Slit Pore Diaphragm proteins that play role in filtration

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Nephrin, Podocin

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Effect of AA metabolites on glomerulus

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Reduce GFR

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AI diseases highly favor what part of nephron

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