CVPR Week 8: Renal diseases Part A Flashcards

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Glomerular diseases

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  • Minimal change disease
  • Focal segmental glomerulosclerosis
  • Membranous nephropathy
  • Mesangio-proliferative GN
  • Membrano-proliferative GN (MPGN)
  • Proliferative GN
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GN AKA

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Glomerulonephritis

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Renal biopsy for glomerular diseases is assessed by?

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4
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Stains for light microscopy renal biopsies

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Patterns of glomerular injury as seen through PAS

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What is the purpose of immunofluorescence microscopy in renal disease

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To check for abnormal immune deposits in a patient’s glomerulus

Such as IgG, IgA, IgM, C3, C1q, kappa, lambda

and in what kind of pattern is it granular or linear

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Identify

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Features of nephrotic syndrome

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  • Massive proteinuria - Loss of >=3.5 g of protein per day
  • Hypalbuminuria - plasma albumin levels <3 g/dL
  • Generalized edema
  • Hyperlipidemia and lipiduria
  • typically insidious onset
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Nephrotic syndrome onset

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insidious onset

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Membranous nephropathy etiology

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  • Primary - ~75% of cases are idiopathic
  • Secondary - associated with systemic diseases
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Systemic diseases that can lead to membranous nephropathy

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  • Systemic lupus erythematosus
  • Infections (chronic hepatitis B and C
  • Malignancies (lung, colon and melanoma)
  • Drugs (penicillamine, captopril, gold and NSAIDs
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Membranous nephropathy onset

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Insidious onset of nephrotic syndrome

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Membranous nephropathy clinical course

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  • proteinuria persists in >60% of cases
  • 10% progress to renal failure in 10 years
  • <40% develop severe chronic kidney disease
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Membranous nephropathy considerations

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Doesn’t respond well to steroids

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Pathogenesis of autoimmune membranous nephropathy

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  • Linked to certain HLA alleles (HLA DQA1)
  • Autoantigen is phospholipase A2 receptor (PA2R)
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Pathogenesis of immune-complex-mediated disease of membranous nephropathy

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  • Activation of complement
  • Production of proteases and oxidants
  • Causes capillary wall injury and protein leakage
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Pathogenesis of secondary disease of membranous nephropathy

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  • Antigens from infectious microbes (e.g. hepatitis B virus) from immune complexes
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Membranous nephropathy features on light microscopy

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  • Uniform thickening of glomerular capillary wall
  • Spikes on Jones silver stain (are basement membrane material)
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Membranous nephropathy features on immunofluorescence microscopy

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Granular deposits of immunoglobulins and complement

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Membranous nephropathy features on electron microscopy

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  • Subepithelial electron dense deposits (between GBM and podocytes)
  • Spikes
  • Podocyte foot process effacement
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IgA nephropathy AKA

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Mesangio-proliferative GN

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26
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Types of proliferative GN

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Post streptococcal GN

Pauci-immune GN (ANCA disease)

Anti-GBM GN

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27
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What is hematuria?

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red blood cellls in urine

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Azotemia =

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  • decreased GFR
  • but increased creatinine and BUN
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Nephritic syndrome features

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  • Hematuria
  • Azotemia
  • Oliguria
  • Mild to moderate proteinuria
  • hypertension
  • acute onset
  • active urine sediment
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Active urine sediment signifies

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acute glomerular inflammation

31
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What is active urine sediment?

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  • red cells
  • dysmorphic red cells
  • red cell casts
  • leukocytes
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Membranoproliferative glomerulephritis AKA

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MPGN

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Membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis is common in?

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Adolescents or young adults

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Membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis nephritic/nephrotic?

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  • Usually nephritic
  • sometimes nephrotic/nephritic
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Membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis course of disease

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  • slowly progressive
  • ~50% develop chronic renal failure in 10 years
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Membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis treatment considerations

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steroids or other immunosuppressant usually aren’t beneficial

37
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MPGN AKA

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Membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis

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Type 1: Membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis pathogenesis

5 listed

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  • immune complexes (IgG, C3) deposited in glomerulus
  • complement activation
  • alterations of GBM
  • Influx of inflammatory cells
  • Proliferation of glomerular cells (mesangial cells and endothelial cells = endocapillary proliferation)
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Type 1 Membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis light microscopy features

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  • glomeruli are hypercellular
  • due to the proliferation of mesangial cells and endothelial cells (endocapillary proliferation) infiltrating leukocytes
  • GBM thickened, double-contours or tram-tracks (duplication of basement membrane)
  • Obstruction of capillary loops
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Membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis Immunofluoresence microscopy

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Deposits of IgG and C3 in granular pattern

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Type 1 Membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis electron microscopy features

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subendothelial electron-dense deposits

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Type 1 MPGN light microscopy

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  • glomeruli are hypercellular
  • Due to the proliferation of mesangial cells and endothelial cells (endocapillary proliferation), infiltrating leukocytes
  • Obstruction of capillary loops
  • GBM thickened, double-contours or “tram-tracks” (duplication of basement membrane)
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Type 1 MPGN immunofluorescence microscopy

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Deposits of IgG and C3 in a granular pattern

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Type 1 MPGN electron microscopy

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subendothelial electron-dense deposits

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Type 2 MPGN AKA

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Dense deposit disease

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Type 2 MPGN prevalence

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Very rare

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Type 2 MPGN pathology

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  • circulating autoantibody termed C3 nephritic factor (C3NeF)
  • electron dense deposits are intramembranous
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Pauci-Immune GN (ANCA Disease) most common in?

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  • adults but it also occur in children
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ANCA disease AKA

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Pauci-Immune GN

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Pauci-Immune GN clinical features

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  • Presents with nephritic syndrome
  • Can present with acute renal failure (medical emergency as it is potentially life-threatening)
  • Treatment: high dose steroids and cyclophosphamide (plasmapheresis is controversial)
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ANCA =

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Anti-Neutrophil Cytoplasmic Antibodies

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What do ANCAs do?

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  • ANCAs bind to proteins in the cytoplasm of neutrophils
  • ANCAs activate neutrophils
  • Activated neutrophils incite inflammation in the glomeruli
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Pauci-immune GN pathology

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  • ANCAs bind to proteins in the cytoplasm of neutrophils
  • ANCAs activate neutrophils
  • Activated neutrophils incite inflammation in the glomeruli
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Types of ANCAs

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  • P-ANCA - perinuclear staining against myeloperoxidase (MPO-ANCA)
  • C-ANCA -cytoplasmic staining against proteinase 3 (PR3-ANCA)
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P-ANCA =

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Perinuclear staining against myeloperoxidase (MPO-ANCA)

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C-ANCA =

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Cytoplasmic staining against proteinase 3 (PR3-ANCA)

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Pauci-immune GN light microscopy features

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  • breaks in glomerular capillaries
  • cellular crescents
  • often neutrophils in glomerular tuft
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Pauci-immune GN immunofluorescence microscopy

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  • no specific staining (or focal weak non-specific staining)
  • That’s why it’s called PAUCI-immune GN
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Pauci-immune GN electron microscopy

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lack of deposits (or scant small deposits present)

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Clinical Lab test for ANCA

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  • nutrophils on glass slide are incubated with patient serum
  • ANCA in patient serum bind to neutrophils
  • ANCA are detected with fluorescent anti-human Ig
  • ***Positive staining is abnormal -> ANCA disease***
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Perinuclear vs cytoplasmic staining

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