Pathology Flashcards
What are the functions of the glomerulis?
- Filtration of water and small solute
- Barrier to proteins (size and charge selective)
Any alteration/loss of the negative charge barrier can cause?
albuminuria or selective proteinuria
Any structural anomaly to GBM, endothelial cell or podocyte can cause ?
proteinuria or hematuria
What is the mechanism involved in immune glomerular injury?
- In situ immune complex formation
- Deposition of preformed circulating immune complexes
- Cytotoxic
- Antibodies Cell-Mediated
- Immune Injury Activation of Alternative Complement Pathway
What are the mechanisms involved in non-immune glomerular injury?
Nephron loss created by a vicious circle where the injury creates structural changes, hyperfiltration, increased intraglomerular pressure and sclerosis of nephrons; direct injury to podocytes, hypertension, diabetes, many others
End-stage kidney injury will result in ?
- Sclerosis of glomeruli
- Tubular atrophy
- Interstitial fibrosis
- Vascular fibrous obliteration
Define selective and non selective proteinuria
Proteinuria that is more than 85% albumin is selective proteinuria. Albumin has a net negative charge, and it is proposed that loss of glomerular membrane negative charges could be important in causing albuminuria. Nonselective proteinuria, being a glomerular leakage of all plasma proteins, would not involve changes in glomerular net charge but rather a generalized defect in permeability.
What is Nephrotic syndrome?
Heavy proteinuria, hypoalbuminemia, severe oedema, hyperlipidemia and lipiduria
Urinary sediment: fatty and hyaline casts, lipids, oval fat bodies
What is Nephritic syndrome?
Hematuria, proteinuria, RBC in urine that form a cast, renal failure and hypertension
Usualy caused by inflammatory lesions of glomeruli
What is the role of biopsy?
- Diagnosis
- Prognostic
- Treatment
What are the characteristics of primary diseases?
- Membranous glomerulopathy
- Minimal change disease
- Focal segmental glomerulosclerosis
- Membranoproliferative glomerulonephritides
- IgA nephropathy
- Others
What are the characteristics of secondary renal diseases?
- Diabetes mellitus
- Amyloidosis
- Systemic lupus erythematosus
- Drugs (nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory, penicillamine, )
- Infections (malaria, syphilis, hepatitis B and C, HIV)
- Malignant disease- paraneoplastic (carcinoma, lymphoma)
- Others
What are the nephrotic syndrome diseases?
- Membranous glomerulopathy
- Minimal change disease
- Focal segmental glomerulosclerosis (FSGS)
- Diabetes mellitus
- Pregnancy
- Amyloidosis
What are the nephritic syndrome diseases?
- Membranoproliferative glomerulonephritides
- IgA nephropathy
- Lupus
- Infections (malaria, syphilis, hepatitis B and C, HIV)
Membranous glomerulopathy (nephrotic syndrome)?
Antibodies that recognize, in own kidney, a similar protein in the membrane of the glomerular epithelial cell, can be secondary to infections, cancer, drugs and autoimmune diseases
Biopsy shows diffuse thickening of glomerular capillary walls
Minimal change disease (nephrotic syndrome)?
Minimal changes in pathology seen in electron microscopy, good prognosis, children more than adults
Focal segmental glomerulosclerosis (FSGS) (nephrotic syndrome)?
Common diagnosis, injury to podocytes, 50% will develop end-stage disease, can be hereditary
Clinically: non-selective proteinuria with mild hematuria (no RBC casts)
Focal and segmental sclerosis
IgA nephropathy (nephritic syndrome)?
Most common type of glomerular disease in the world and most common cause of recurrent hematuria, affects more children and young adults, 25% progress to end-stage renal disease
Pathology findings is variable but always mesangial cell proliferation
Ex. Henoch-Shonlein Purpura systemic symptoms with skin rash (vasculitis)