Had a great conversation with Dr. Irfan Agha about navigating glomerulonephritis: from diagnosis to emerging approaches in care and why close collaboration between nephrologists and pathologists matters so much for patients.
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I learned so much from this podcast. I encourage you to share it with your colleagues who are wanting to improve their renal biopsy technique!
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Great job @MolenOdia and @nephrosharma on the presentation of ‘Machine Learning Classification of Kidney Biopsy Smartphone Images for Adequacy Assessment’. I look forward to seeing where this goes!
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@BJegorovic@arkanalabs@set_fortess Infection was quite rare in these GIN case series. Tb belongs in the differential though. The series below includes 17 pts with M. tuberculosis and renal biopsy. 16/17 had GIN on biopsy with caseating granulomata in only 3/16. 0/17 were pos for AFB.
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@VrushaliPatho@arkanalabs I have always found the approach of Nasr, et al helpful.... "a ratio of calcium oxalate deposits per glomerulus was calculated. The mean and median number of calcium oxalate deposits per glomerulus was 3.5 and 3.1 (range 1.5 to 7.9)."
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@DrGeetikaSingh1@NephBean@MPAlexanderMD@SethiRenalPath@Richard@nephrosharma I usually only count as a percentage of intact glomeruli too. I think of this as a measure of activity and a globally sclerotic glomerulus cannot have an active crescent. As such, it does not make sense to me to use it in the denominator.
@arkanalabs@VertexPharma "Hypertensive nephrosclerosis" (HTN-NS), move over, there's a new sheriff in town: APOL1 mediated renal disease. Its about time we move into the 21st century. Testimg just got a lot easier. RIP HTN-NS