Immunotactoid Glomerulopathy of 10-Years’ Duration: Insights Gained From Sequential Biopsies

Immunotactoid Glomerulopathy of 10-Years’ Duration: Insights Gained From Sequential Biopsies

Camillo Carrara, Elizabeth Ferucci, Stephano Emili, Mirna N. Toukatly, Roberto F. Nicosia and Charles E. Alpers Department of Pathology, University of Washington Medical Center, Seattle, Washington, USA; IRCCS–Mario Negri Institute for Pharmacological Research, Clinical Research Center for Rare Diseases Aldo & Cele Daccò, Bergamo, Italy; Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium, Anchorage, Alaska...

Fibrillary glomerulonephritis and immunotactoid glomerulopathy.

Fibrillary glomerulonephritis is a now widely recognized diagnostic entity, occurring in approximately 1% of native kidney biopsies in several large biopsy series obtained from Western countries. The distinctive features are infiltration of glomerular structures by randomly arranged fibrils similar in appearance but larger than amyloid fibrils and the lack of staining with histochemical dyes ty...

Immunotactoid glomerulopathy and tuberculosis: a novel association.

Immunotactoid glomerulopathy: clinicopathologic and proteomic study.

BACKGROUND Immunotactoid glomerulopathy (ITG) is a rare glomerular disease. Here, we report the largest clinicopathologic series of ITG and define its proteomic profile. METHODS The characteristics of 16 ITG patients who were identified from our pathology archives are provided between 1993 and 2011. We also performed laser microdissection and mass spectrometry (LMD/MS) in three cases. RESUL...

Insights gained from 20 years of soy research.

Soyfoods have long been recognized for their high-protein and low-saturated fat content, but over the past 20 y an impressive amount of soy-related research has evaluated the role of these foods in reducing chronic disease risk. Much of this research has been undertaken because the soybean is essentially a unique dietary source of isoflavones, a group of chemicals classified as phytoestrogens. ...