1. Introduction

2. Processing of renal samples

3. Electron microscopy in renal biopsies

4. Important issues in renal pathology

5. Approach to renal biopsy study

6. Histology of the kidney

7. Histologic patterns of glomerular changes

8. Proliferative endocapillary glomerulonephritis

9. Membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis and dense deposit disease

10. Minimal change disease (and IgM, C1q, IgG, and C3 nephropathies)

11. Focal and segmental glomerulosclerosis

12. IgA nephropathy and Henoch-Schönlein purpura

13. Membranous glomerulonephritis

14. Crescentic glomerulonephritis (anti-GBM and ANCA-associated glomerulonephritis)

15. Lupus nephritis and renal involvement in other rheumatologic diseases

16.The kidney in diabetes mellitus and other metabolic disorders (hyperuricemia, oxalosis)

17. Amyloidosis, multiple myeloma, light chain deposition disease, Waldenström's macroglobulinemia, Monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance, Fibrillary and immunotactoid glomerulopathy, and cryoglobulinemia

18. Tubulointerstitial diseases NEW

English version of the next chapters will appear in the next months (at present there are only the Spanish version)

19. Vascular diseases

20. Hereditary diseases

21. Cystic renal diseases and developmental defects

22. Kidney transplantation pathology

23. Renal neoplasms

Luis F. Arias, MD., PhD., Editor; luisfer_uda@yahoo.com

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