Robbins Ch 20 Part II Flashcards
Which systemic disease has a glomerular lesion that has a wire-loop appearance on light microscopy?
SLE
What is the most common and severe form of SLE?
It leads to what filling Bowman’s space?
1) Class IV: diffuse lupus nephritis
2) Lateral crescents
How does Henoch-Schönlein Purpura differ from Berger’s?
Henoch-Schönlein Purpura is systemic while Berger’s is localized to kidney
What is found on immunofluorescence for Henoch-Schönlein Purpura?
IgA is deposited in the renal mesangium and sometimes with C3 and IgG
Fibrillary Glomerulonephritis is characterized by what deposition seen on immunofluorescence?
Polyclonal IgG (mostly IgG4)
What is characterized morphologically by damage to tubular epithelial cells and clinically by an acutely diminished renal function?
Acute Tubular Injury/Necrosis
Can acute tubular injury be reversed?
Yes
Ischemic Acute Tubular Injury/Necrosis shows focal tubular epithelial cell necrosis and basement membrane eruption with?
Toxic ATI shows focal, nonspecific necrosis especially at?
1) Large skipped areas of unaffected tubule
2) The straight portion of the proximal tubule and the thick ascending limb
Eosinophilic hyaline and pigmented granular casts are common with Acute Tubular Injury/Necrosis, especially in the distal tubules and collecting ducts. What do these casts contain?
Tamm-Horsfall protein (urinary glycoprotein normally secreted by the cells of the ascending thick limb and distal tubules)
At what point in its clinical course does Acute Tubular Injury/Necrosis present with hematuria?
Never
What occurs during the maintenance phase of Acute Tubular Injury/Necrosis?
What needs to be monitored during the recovery phase?
1) Decrease in urine output (oliguria)
2) Hypokalemia and increased risk of infection
What is diagnostic for Acute Tubular Injury/Necrosis?
Dirty Brown Granular Casts, also called “renal failure casts”
What bacteria are the most common etiology for pyelonephritis?
It is spread most commonly through?
1) Gram-negative, most commonly E. coli
2) Ascending infection from a lower urinary tract infection
What allows bacteria to gain access to ureters?
What makes it easier for the bacteria to ascend?
1) Vesicoureteral Reflux
2) Stasis of urine
What are the hallmarks of acute pyelonephritis?
1) Patchy interstitial suppurative inflammation (focal abscesses or large wedge-like areas)
2) Intratubular WBC aggregates (WBC casts on urinalysis)
3) Tubular necrosis
What complications of acute pyelonephritis is seen in diabetics, sickle cell disease, and those with urinary tract obstruction?
Papillary necrosis
What predisposing conditions increases the susceptibility to acute pyelonephritis?
Pregnancy and DM
What are the only two conditions that impact the calyces?
Chronic pyelonephritis and analgesic nephropathy
What is the most common pyelonephritic scarring that occurs early in childhood from superimposition of UTI on congenital vesicoureteral reflux and intrarenal reflux?
Reflux nephropathy
Chronic obstructive pyelonephritis is characterized by?
Defective posterior urethral valves bilaterally
Chronic pyelonephritis leads to a dilated, flattened epithelium filled with?
Thyroid colloid (thyroidization)
What is a rare form of chronic pyelonephritis that is characterized by foam cells mixed with plasma cells, giant cells, and other WBCs?
It is often associated with what infections?
1) Xanthogranulomatous pyelonephritis
2) Proteus infections
Acute (Drug-Induced) TubuloInterstitial Nephritis is what type of hypersensitivity?
What do the drugs act as?
1) Type I and IV
2) Haptens
What are patients with analgesic nephropathy more likely to develop?
Urothelial carcinoma of the renal pelvis
Bence-Jones proteinuria and cast nephropathy occurs in 70% of patients with?
Multiple myeloma