International Course on Native and Transplant Renal Biopsy Interpretation Nika Kojc Institute of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, Ljubljana, Slovenia June 5th 2014 Membranoprolifera-ve glomerulonephri-s • A lesion or a disease • Pa7ern of glomerular injury • Classifica-on: based on histologic and ultrastructural features • Heterogeneity of e-opathogene-c mechanisms MPGN classifica-on Histomorphologic pa7ern + loca-on of deposits – MPGN type I – MPGN type II – MPGN type III • Burkholder variant • Anders and Strife variant Loca-on of deposits does not reflect ethiopatogene-c mechanisms leading to MPGN. MPGN type I MPGN typ III Burkholder MPGN type III A & S MPGN MPGN -p III MPGN -p I Imunofluorescence • Deposits of immunoglobulins IgG in/ali IgM, IgA • Deposits of complement components C3 and/ or C1 • Dominant C3 deposits? Dense deposit disease Galle (1962): • new glomerular disease en-ty • electron dense transforma-on of GBM Paris. Medical school, University of Paris; 1962 Habib et al. (1975): • Dense deposit disease: a variant of MPGN. Kidney Int, 7; 204–215, 1975
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