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Ch. 1 The Normal Kidney 1
Ch. 2 Classification of Renal Diseases and Mechanisms of Renal Injury 7
Ch. 3 Tissue Sampling, Preparation, and Interpretation 12
Ch. 4 The True (Hypercellular or "Proliferative") Glomerulonephritides: Diseases Associated With the Nephritic Syndrome 14
Ch. 5 The Nonglomerulonephritic Glomerulonephropathies: Diseases Manifested as Severe Proteinuria or Idiopathic Nephrotic Syndrome 38
Ch. 6 Conditions With Isolated or Predominant Hematuria: IgA Nephropathy, Henoch-Schonlein Purpura, and Loin Pain - Hematuria Syndrome 57
Ch. 7 Diseases Associated With Acellular Closure of Glomerular Capillaries: The Thrombotic Microangiopathies 68
Ch. 8 The Nephropathies of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus and Other Rheumatologic Disorders 78
Ch. 9 The Kidney in Metabolic Disorders: Diabetes Mellitus, Hyperuricemia, Oxalosis, Nephrocalcinosis, and Nephrolithiasis 97
Ch. 10 The End-Stage Kidney 113
Ch. 11 Disorders of the Glomerular Basement Membrane: Alport's Syndrome, Nail-Patella Syndrome, and Thin-Basement-Membrane Disease 118
Ch. 12 Disorders of the Tubules 126
Ch. 13 Disorders of the Interstitium: Interstitial Nephritis, Pyelonephritis, Papillary Necrosis, Analgesic Nephropathy, and Obstructive Nephropathy (Hydronephrosis) 136
Ch. 14 Vascular Diseases of the Kidney: Ischemic Renal Disease, Thromboembolism, Hypertension, Renal Cortical Necrosis, and Renal Vein Thrombosis 159
Ch. 15 Vasculitis and the Kidney: Polyarteritis Nodosa, Wegener's Granulomatosis, Churg-Strauss Syndrome, Mixed Cryoglobulinemia, and Other Forms of Vasculitis 172
Ch. 16 HIV-Associated Nephropathy and Intravenous Drug Abuse 187
Ch. 17 Miscellaneous Conditions Affecting the Kidney: Liver Disease, Sickle Cell Nephropathy, Clq Nephropathy, Collagen Type III Glomerulopathy, and Fibronectin Glomerulopathy 194
Ch. 18 Renal Effects of Extrarenal Neoplasms 209
Ch. 19 Plasma Cell Dyscrasias, Monoclonal Gammopathies, and the Fibrillary Glomerulopathies: Multiple Myeloma, Light Chain Deposition Disease, Amyloidosis, Fibrillary Glomerulonephritis, and Immunotactoid Glomerulopathy 212
Ch. 20 Cystic Renal Diseases and Renal Dysplasia 235
Ch. 21 Pathology of Renal Transplantation 247
Ch. 22 Pediatric Tumors and Tumor-Like Conditions of the Kidney 261
Ch. 23 Adult Renal Tumors and Tumor-Like Conditions 275
Ch. 24 Tumors and Tumor-Like Conditions of the Renal Pelvis 309
Index 319