*Corresponding author: Prof. Hamid Nasri, Department of Nephrology, Division of Nephropathology, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran. E-mail: [email protected] The interesting article, published by Rolla et al, had some points needs more description. They reported a post-infectious glomerulonephritis secondary to Borrelia burgdorferi infection in a 61-year old man (1). The ...

A patient with Adamantiades-Behçet's disease with renal involvement is reported. This patient fulfilled the International Study Group criteria for the disease. Kidney biopsy was performed and proliferative glomerulonephritis with deposition of IgA and IgM immunoglobulins were demonstrated. Review of the literature demonstrates that renal involvement in this disease is not so rare as it was beli...

Dr. A. Sessa, Unità Operativa di Nefrologia e Dialisi, Ospedale di Vimercate, I-20059 Vimercate (Italy) Dear Sir, The accompanying micrograph shows a typical glom-erulonephritis with mesangial electrondense deposits. The kidney biopsy was performed in a 17-year-old girl presenting the clinical picture of Berger’s disease but without IgA mesangial deposits on immunofluorescent microscopy; light ...

INTRODUCTION Glomerulonephritis is the third most common cause of end-stage renal disease. Epidemiological data of kidney disease is population-based and has great geographic variability. The aim of this study was to assess the results of all kidney biopsies in a 5-year period in the Guilan province. MATERIALS AND METHODS In a retrospective study of 336 kidney biopsies recorded in the Departm...

IgA nephropathy is glomerular disease first described in 1968 by Berger, named after him Morbus Berger. The disease is characterized by the presence of IgA dominant or codominant immunoglobulin deposits in glomerular mesangium which can be demonstrated by immunofluorescence. Clinical manifestations of IgA nephropathy in the majority of cases is hematuria which can be macro or microscopic, isola...

Glomerulonephritis occurs as a rare form of renal manifestation in Plasmodium falciparum malaria. Herein, we report a case of falciparum malaria-associated IgA nephropathy for the first time. A 49-yr old male who had been to East Africa was diagnosed with Plasmodium falciparum malaria. Microhematuria and proteinuria along with acute kidney injury developed during the course of the disease. Kidn...

OBJECTIVE To survey the clinical epidemiology and correlations between pathology and clinical features of major groups of kidney diseases in a rural area of China. METHODS From January 1996 to December 2010, histologic diagnosis of renal disease was made on samples collected from 919 patients from a single center in the midland rural area of China. Demographic data were obtained from all pati...

The authors report the case of a patient presenting with cutaneous, renal and neurologic vasculitis in the course of relapsing polychondritis (RPC). A 78-year-old man presented with a palpable purpura of the lower limbs, high fever arthralgias, delirium, and nephrotic syndrome. He had a history of relapsing polychondritis treated by corticosteroids. Renal biopsy showed diffuse endo- and extraca...