Case Reports Renal Pathology 2018 Exercise 6: Transplant Glomerulonephritis (CSRP1806)

Megan L. Troxell, MD, PhD
Professor, Pathology
Stanford University Medical Center
Stanford, California

Primary Audience: Pathologists and Clinical Scientists

Secondary Audience: Residents, Laboratory Technologist/Scientist (Includes all sub-specialty areas), Students, Pathologist Assistants,  Laboratory Directors and Educators

Upon completion of this activity, you will be able to:

• allocate biopsy tissue appropriately in the setting of clinical concern for glomerulonephritis in a kidney transplant;
• select an appropriate panel of immunofluorescence and ultrastructural studies to fully characterize glomerulonephritis in the transplant setting;
• distinguish recurrent from de novo glomerulonephritis in a kidney transplant;
• differentiate proliferative glomerulonephritis with monoclonal immunoglobulin deposits from other glomerulonephritides; and
• discuss implications for recurrence of glomerulonephritis.