A cervical lymph node biopsy from a 38-year-old woman initially revealed necrotising lymphadenitis. Her case is presented herein. An exhaustive examination that included renal biopsy did not suggest systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). She was diagnosed with Kikuchi-Fujimoto Disease (KFD) and was treated with prednisone. One year later, a renal biopsy performed for renal failure revealed Class I...

AIM OF THE WORK This study investigates whether serum and urinary interleukin-6 (IL-6) represent an early marker of kidney involvement and assesses the difference between them and renal biopsy in lupus nephritis (LN). PATIENTS AND METHODS A total of 60 systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) patients were compared to 20 healthy controls. Urinary and serum IL-6 were measured in both patients and co...

BACKGROUND Polyoma virus-associated nephropathy (PVN) is a common cause of renal transplant failure. The risk factors for the development of PVN have not yet been studied in large cohorts of patients for periods of 20 years. METHODS We collected clinical, renal biopsy and urinary cytology data from all patients with renal transplantations performed at the University Hospital of Basel from 198...

Background: Renal involvement in type 2 diabetes is mainly due to diabetic nephropathy (DN). Nevertheless, a sizable proportion of diabetic patients could actually have nondiabetic renal diseases (NDRDs) or DN plus NDRDs. This study aimed to explore the pathological features of NDRD in diabetic patients and to assess the predictability of diagnosing NDRD (6DN) versus isolated DN on the basis of...

in this first report on the experience with renal transplantation in children and adolescents in southern iran during the past five years, thirty-two patients (aged 5- 19 years old 18 males, 14 females) received renal allografts. pretransplantation pathologic diagnoses by kidney biopsy were: membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis (mpgn), rapidly progressive glomerulonephritis (rpgn), chronic ...

introduction antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies (anca)-associated glomerulonephritis (gn) is characterized by necrotizing and crescentic gn with paucity of immunoglobulin (ig) and complement deposition, which is also known as pauci-immune crescentic gn. membranous nephropathy (mn) is characterized by the formation of subepithelial immune deposit with resultant changes in glomerular basement ...

BACKGROUND BK nephropathy is an evolving challenge among kidney transplant recipients. Diagnosis of BK nephropathy depends on the presence of BK viral inclusions on renal biopsy. Most cases of BK nephropathy are preceded by BK viremia or viruria. CASE REPORT We report a case of BK nephropathy found on protocol renal transplant biopsy without associated BK viremia or viruria. CONCLUSIONS BK ...

Firstly, it is controversial to define the second case as tubulointerstitial nephritis (TIN) or TINU syndrome due to lack of either histopathological analysis, or renal failure or uveitis. Despite spontaneous regression of renal findings, it is invalid to diagnose TIN without a biopsy. A similar clinical course may be seen in various other renal disorders related to tubules. It has been reporte...