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Glomerular Disease Pathology Flashcards

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What is glomerulonephritis?

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Inflammation of the tinu filters in your kidney (glomeruli)

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What is inflammation of the glomeruli called?

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Glomerulonephritis

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How does blood enter the glomerulus?

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Via afferent arteriole

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What happens once blood enters the glomerulus?

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Some of it is filtered across glomerular membrane

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When blood enters the glomerulus, what happens to albumin and porteins that are equal in size or larger?

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They are not filtered and will stay in plasma

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What are the cells called in the Bowman’s capsule that wrap around the capillaries of the glomerulus?

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Podocytes

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What are podocytes observed to have?

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Interdigitating fingers or foot processes

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What can be seen if you took a secrtion through a capillary loop?

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Filter barrier, which is a membrane composed of endothelial cell cytoplasm, basal lamina and podocyte

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What are the 3 parts of the filter barrier?

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Endothelial cell cytoplasm

Basal lamina

Podocyte

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What are mesangial cells?

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‘Tree like’ group of cells which support capillaries

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What happens to filtrate after glomerulus?

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Goes into Bowman’s space, then into proximal tubule

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After the glomerulus, what do blood cells, some fluid and albumin and larger proteins exit via?

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Efferent arteriole

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What are the different kinds of glomerulonephritis?

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Inflammatory or non-inflammatory

Primary (only affects glomerulus) or secondary (other body parts affected such as SLE or Wegener’s)

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What is primary glomerulus?

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Only affects glomerulus

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What is secondary glomerulus?

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Affects other parts of the body

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What are examples of diseases causing secondary glomerulus?

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SLE or Wegener’s

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What is the aetiology of glomerulonephritis?

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Some are due to immunoglobulin deposition, and some are diseases with no immunoglobulin deposition, such as diabetic glomerular disease

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What are the 4 common presentations of glomerulonephritis?

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  • Haematuria (blood in urine)
  • Heavy proteinuria (nephrotic syndrome)
  • Slowly increasing proteinuria
  • Acute renal failure
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What is the medical term for blood in urine?

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Haematuria

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What is the medial term for excess proteins in the urine?

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Proteinuria

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What are different conditions that caue glomerulonephritis?

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IgA glomerlonephritis

Membranous glomerulonephritis

Diabetic nephropathy

Crescentic glomerulonephritis

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What does IgA glomerulonephritis often present with?

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  • Presentation: Discoloured urine
  • Investigation: dipstick urine (+ve for blood)
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What are the main causes of IgA glomerulonephritis?

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  • Urinary tract infection
  • Urinary tract stone
  • Urinary tract tumour
  • Glomerulonephritis
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What investigations are done for IgA glomerulonephritis?

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Dipstick urine

Urine culture

Ultrasound scan

If all normal, renal biopsy

26
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If all typical investigations are normal for IgA glomerulonephritis, what investigation would be done?

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Renal biopsy

27
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What is immunofluorescence?

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Method in biology that relies on the use of antibodies chemically labeled with fluorescent dyes to visualize molecules under a light microscope

28
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What can be done with urinary biopsy in IgA glomerulonephritis?

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What is seen in a renal biopsy and immunofluorscence for IgA glomerulonephritis?

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  • Reveals immunoglobulin (of IgA type) and complement component of C3 in mesangial area of all glomeruli
30
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What is the aetiology of IgA glomerulonephritis?

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Aetiology of IgA glomerulonephritis is unknown:

  • Excess antibody (IgA) sometimes present in serum, but this is also true of some people who do not have IgA glomerulonephritis
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What is the pathogenesis of IgA glomerulonephritis?

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IgA also does not get filtered into urine, it is “stuck” within the mesangium

This causes mesangium, not the filter membrane to become clogged with antibody – causing red blood cells to escape into urine:

  • IgA irritates mesangial cells and causes them to proliferate and produce more matrix
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What is the prognosis of IgA glomerulonephritis?

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  • Usually self-limiting, ie return to normal
  • Small percentage go onto chronic renal failure (via continued deposition of matrix)
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What is the typical presentation of membranous glomerulonephritis?

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Could present with feeling unwell and swollen legs

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What investigations are done for membranous glomerulonephritis?

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  • Check clotting screen then do renal biopsy
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What is seen in a dipstick of urine for membranous glomerulonephritis?

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Proteinuria

36
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What is seen in blood biochemistry for membranous glomerulonephritis?

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Serum albumin low

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What is the pathogenesis of membranous glomerulonephritis?

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In membranous glomerulonephritis IgG is stuck in the membrane:

  • IgG deposits itself between basal lamina and podocyte but cannot go further and is not filtered into urine
  • IgG is too big to be filtered into urine, but activates complement (C3) which punches holes in filter
  • This leaky filter now allows albumin to be filtered into urine, causing nephrotic syndrome
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What does renal biopsy reveal for membranous glomerulonephritis?

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Thickened glomerular basement membrane

Deposits of IgG

Basal lamina spikes (matrix which tries to surround the deposit)

39
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What is deposited on the membrane in membranous glomerulonephritis?

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IgG

40
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What is the prognosis of membranous glomerulonephritis?

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  • 1/4 will get chronic renal failure within 10 years
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What is the aetiology of membranous glomerulonephritis?

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  • Unknown but ca sometimes have underlying malignancy
  • In many patients antigen is phospholipase A2 receptor
42
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What investigations are done for diabetic nephropathy?

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Dipstick urine

Clotting screen

Renal biopsy

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What can be seen in the biopsy for diabetic nephropathy?

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44
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What is the pathogenesis of diabetic nephropathy?

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45
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What kind of lesion does diabetic nephropathy cause?

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Diabetic nephropathy causes nodules of mesangial matrix to form, known as Kimmelsteil-Wilson lesion:

  • Is gross excess of mesangial matrix forming nodules
46
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What is the prognosis of diabetic nephropathy?

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  • Inevitable decline if established diabetic nephropathy ad if continued poor diabetic control
47
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What is a sign of acute renal failure?

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Rapidly rising creatinine

48
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What are the typical investigations for renal disease?

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Urine dipstick

Clotting screen

Renal biopsy

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What is seen in the biopsy for crescentic glomerulonephritis?

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Early endothelial damage with fibrin deposition

Crush glomerular tuft

Cellular proliferation and influx of macrophages (is the crescent) around glomerular tuft, within Bowman’s space

50
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What are some causes for the crescentic glomerulonephritis pattern of injury?

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  • Granulomatosis with polyangiitis (also known as Wegener’s granulomatosis)
    • Form of vasculitis (inflammation in vessels) which affects vessels in kidneys, nose and lungs
  • Microscopic polyarteritis (a disease very like Wegener)
  • Antiglomerular basement membrane disease
  • Many other forms of glomerulonephritis
51
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What is granulomatosis with polyangitis also known as?

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Wegener’s granulomatosis

52
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What is Wegener’s granulomatotis?

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  • Form of vasculitis (inflammation in vessels) which affects vessels in kidneys, nose and lungs
53
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What further tests can be done for Wegener’s?

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  • Serum test shows presence of anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies (ANCA)
    • These are not deposited in the kidneys
    • Antibodies directed against proteinase 3 and myeloperoxidase, 2 enzymes in primary granules of neutrophils
    • Antibodies produce tissue damaged via interactions with primed neutrophils and endothelial cells
54
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What do serum tests reveal in Wegener’s?

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Presence of anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies (ANCA)

55
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What does ANCA stand for?

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Anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies

56
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What is ACNA a form of?

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Autoimmunity

57
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What is the prognosis of Wegener’s?

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  • Fatal (mean survival time is 6 months) if left untreated
  • Cyclophosphamide
    • 75% complete remission

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