Tuberculosis is a multiorgan disease with varied clinical presentations and is reemerging due to increasing immigration and globalization. We present the case of an immigrant female patient who developed acute renal failure with clinical and biochemical features suggestive of lupus nephritis but with a timely renal biopsy showing caseating granulomata in the renal parenchyma consistent with ren...

A 23-year-old Japanese woman was admitted with asymptomatic proteinuria and hematuria. An ultrasound-assisted percutaneous renal biopsy was performed. Three days later she experienced sudden-onset left back pain when picking up a heavy bag. Contrast-enhanced abdominal computed tomography demonstrated a cloverleaf compression of the left renal parenchyma caused by a subcapsular hematoma (Picture...

OBJECTIVE: To find out the pattern of glomerulopathies in paediatric population, undergoing renal biopsy at Khyber Teaching Hospital, Peshawar. METHODS: This was a prospective study carried out at the department of Nephrology at Khyber Teaching Hospital, Peshawar from June 2010 till June 2012. Ultrasound guided percutaneous renal biopsies were carried out in patients with the finding of; 1) Nep...