Main description:

This book is a practical guide to renal biopsy interpretation for trainees in pathology and nephrology.

Beginning with an introduction to biopsy, indications and histopathologic evaluation, the following chapters cover biopsy and subsequent diagnosis of different renal diseases.

Presented in bullet point format for ease of learning, each chapter begins with an abstract summarising the key points of the topic, and concludes with detailed references for further reading.

The text is further enhanced by pathologic photographs and figures to assist understanding.

Key points

Practical guide to renal biopsy interpretation for trainees
Presented in bullet point format for ease of learning
Each chapter includes a summary abstract and references for further reading
Features pathologic photographs and figures to assist understanding

Contents:

Introduction
Indications for Biopsy Proven Categories of Renal Diseases
Histopathologic Evaluation
Glomerular Diseases
Systemic Glomerular Diseases
Diabetic Nephropathy
Systemic and Renal Limited Vasculitides
Anti-glomerular Basement Membrane Disease
Paraproteinemias/Dysproteinemias-associated Renal Disease
Glomerulonephritis with Organized Immune Deposits
HIV-associated Nephropathy
Heredofamilial Glomerulopathies
Tubulointerstitial Diseases
Vascular Renal Diseases
Renal Transplant Diseases

Index