SARS-Cov2 infection is a highly transmissible disease associated with serious pulmonary disease. Renal involvement frequent and poor prognosis; however, mechanisms of kidney injury are not well established. We present patient severe acute injury. Kidney biopsy findings revealed pattern tubular necrosis isometric vacuolization the proximal tubule. The interstitium glomeruli were normal. Electron...

BACKGROUND Vancomycin is the first-line antibiotic for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and coagulase-negative strains. The risk of vancomycin-induced acute kidney injury increases with plasma vancomycin levels. Vancomycin-induced acute kidney injury is histologically characterized by acute interstitial nephritis and/or acute tubular necrosis. However, only 12 biopsy-proven cases of ...

Introduction Kidney biopsy is one of the most important diagnostic tools in a nephrologist’s armamentarium. It has been shown that performance of a kidney biopsy in the appropriate clinical setting has the potential to alter the clinical diagnosis as well as change the therapy in many cases. Current biopsy practice is very safe with minimal complications and has the ability to obtain adequate t...

Renal biopsy in children can be performed either by percutaneous, laparoscopic, or open surgical approaches. As reported in a recent large pediatric series (Hussain et al., 2010), the percutaneous approach is by far the most commonly utilized, with the open approach typically reserved for situations in which percutaneous biopsy may be relatively contraindicated or there is the need for a large ...

We report a rare case of pulmonary phaeohyphomycosis in a 49-year-old woman 6 years after kidney transplantation. She presented with dyspnea, cough, and fatigue. Her chest CT scan revealed nodular opacities in the right upper lung. A fine needle aspirate biopsy culture yielded Phaeoacremonium and surgical pathology of the biopsy showed chronic inflammation. We successfully treated her with posa...

BACKGROUND In the United States, transjugular renal biopsies using the Quickcore side cut needle system have previously been described primarily for transjugular renal biopsy in patients with concurrent liver and kidney disease. METHODS We describe transjugular renal biopsy with the Quickcore trade mark system in 9 patients with nephrotic syndrome and contraindications to percutaneous renal b...

BACKGROUND Renal involvement is rare in primary Sjögren syndrome (PSS). In this study, we examined renal biopsy findings in patients with PSS and correlated them with their clinical and renal findings. METHODS Twenty-five patients with PSS who underwent renal biopsies from two renal units in Scotland between 1978 and 2013 were identified from renal biopsy database. We examined the renal morph...