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School of Medicine
SY 2018-2019
Urinary Tract
Lecture – Glomerulus
1. Kidney
• Glomerulus
• Tubulo-intersititial tissue
• Vascular system
2. Ureter
3. Urinary bladder
Objectives
1. Waste elimination
4. Hormone production
GLOMERULUS
Glomerulus
2. Structure
1. Endothelial cells
2. Basement membrane
3. Epithelial cells
4. Mesangial cells
Collagen fibrils
Endothelial cells
-- Coagulation factors
-- MHC expression
-- not a major filtration barrier
Basement membrane
1. Synthesize BM
5. Maintenance of BM
6. Modulates filtration
3. Chemical mediators
Primary glomerular disease
2. Immune-complex-mediated injury
• Diffuse proliferative glomerulonephritis
e.g., post-streptococcal
Post-streptococcal glomerulonephritis
1. Pathogenesis
2. Histology
Post-streptococcal glomerulonephritis
1. Pathogenesis
2. Histology
3. Immunofluorescence
4. Electron microscopy
C3
IgG
Post-streptococcal glomerulonephritis
1. Pathogenesis
2. Histology
3. Immunofluorescence
4. Electron microscopy
2. Immune-complex-mediated injury
• Diffuse proliferative glomerulonephritis
e.g., post-streptococcal
• IgA nephropathy
IgA nephropathy
2. Immune-complex-mediated injury
• Diffuse proliferative glomerulonephritis
e.g., post-streptococcal
• IgA nephropathy
• Membranous glomerulopathy
Membranous glomerulopathy
1. Mostly idiopathic
2. Some secondary
3. Pathogenesis ?
2. Immune-complex-mediated injury
• Diffuse proliferative glomerulonephritis e.g.,
post-streptococcal
• IgA nephropathy
• Membranous glomerulopathy
2. Immune-complex-mediated injury
• Diffuse proliferative glomerulonephritis e.g.,
post-streptococcal
• IgA nephropathy
• Membranous glomerulopathy
• Crescentric glomerulonephritis
Crescentric glomerulonephritis
2. Immune-complex-mediated injury
• Diffuse proliferative glomerulonephritis e.g.,
post-streptococcal
• IgA nephropathy
• Membranous glomerulopathy
• Crescentric glomerulonephritis
3. Hyperkalemia
4. Metabolic acidosis
5. Uremia
Causes
2. Uremia
4. Hyperkalemia
5. Metabolic acidosis