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To start off: Lupus can affect the kidney in many ways! Read on to find out more!
To start off: Lupus can affect the kidney in many ways! Read on to find out more!
Lupus can affect multiple compartments of the kidney:
🎃Glomerulonephritis (i.e. lupus nephritis, LN)
🎃Tubulointerstitial nephritis
🎃Podocytopathy
🎃Vasculopathy/angiopathy
🎃Glomerulonephritis (i.e. lupus nephritis, LN)
🎃Tubulointerstitial nephritis
🎃Podocytopathy
🎃Vasculopathy/angiopathy
Histopathology🔬 - let’s focus on LN:
The mesangium is a continuation of the subendothelial space. In LN, the deposits initially start in the mesangium and progress to other locations (e.g. subendothelial deposits).
The mesangium is a continuation of the subendothelial space. In LN, the deposits initially start in the mesangium and progress to other locations (e.g. subendothelial deposits).
