Biopsy Flashcards
Minimal change disease
Light - normal
Electron - fusion of podocytes and effacement of foot processes
Focal segmental glomerulosclerosis
Light - focal and segmental sclerosis and hyalinosis
Electron - effacement of foot processes
Membranous glomerulonephritis
Spike and dome
Thickened basement membrane with sub epithelial electron dense deposits
Post strep glomerulonephritis
Electron - sub epithelial humps
Immunofluoresence - starry sky
Membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis type 1
Tram trak
Subendothelial and mesangial immune deposits
Membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis type 2
intramembranous immune complex deposition with dense deposits
Alport’s
Basket weave
Longitudinal splitting of lamina sense of glomerular basement membrane
Good pasture’s
Linear IgG deposits along glomerular basement membrane
Granulomatosis with polyangitis
Epithelial crescent in Bowman’s capsule
Diffuse proliferative glomerulonephritis
Wire loop
Endothelial and mesangial proliferation, thickened capillary wall
Electron - sub endothelial immune deposits
IgA nephropathy
Mesangial hypercellularlity
Immunofluoresence - IgA and C3
Spike and dome
Membranous glomerulonephritis
Starry sky
Post strep glomerulonephritis
Trans trak
Membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis type 1
Basekt weave
Alport’s
Wire loop
Diffuse proliferative glomerulonephritis