Canadian Association of Pathologists - Case of the Month - November 2007
HIV and Renal Failure

Contributed by Drs. Andrew Herzenberg (andrew.herzenberg@uhn.on.ca) and Oyedele Adeyi (oyedele.adeyi@uhn.on.ca), University Health Network, Toronto, Canada

Clinical Summary:

A 48 year-old HIV+ man with renal failure and proteinuria underwent a kidney biopsy.

Virtual Slides:

Scanned courtesy of Olympus Canada, on the Nanozoomer digital slide scanner.

Light microscopy

PAS stained kidney biopsy

Immunofluorescence microscopy

IgM by FITC staining
C3 by FITC staining

Electron micrographs:

Annotated electron micrograph

Diagnosis:

Reveal the diagnosis.


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