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American Journal of Pathology, Vol 113, 279-290, Copyright © 1983 by American Society for Investigative Pathology

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Fibrillary renal deposits and nephritis

JL Duffy, E Khurana, M Susin, G Gomez-Leon and J Churg

Fibrillary renal deposits and nephritis. The authors have studied 8 patients whose glomeruli contain abundant fibrils in their mesangial matrix and basement membranes. Although the location of these fibrils is very similar to that of amyloid, they are about twice the size of amyloid fibrils, averaging 20 nm in width, and fail to react as amyloid does with special stains. Immunofluorescence-microscopic studies are usually positive with antiserums to IgG, often IgM, and in some cases IgA, and also kappa and lambda light chains, C3, and C4. The fibrils are associated with diffuse mesangial widening and increased mesangial matrix strands. Although peripheral glomerular capillary walls appear to be spared initially, their eventual involvement leads to glomerular capillary collapse and glomerular obsolescence. Crescent formation occurred in 5 cases, focally in 3 and diffusely in 2. Tubular basement membrane involvement was seen in 1 case. These patients exhibit hematuria, and proteinuria, and often hypertension and renal insufficiency. Proteinuria was in the nephrotic range in 3 patients in whom involvement of glomerular capillary basement membranes was extensive. Unless electron microscopy is applied to renal biopsies, these cases may be considered to represent mesangiocapillary or rapidly progressive glomerulonephritis, or amyloidosis. The nature of these fibrils is as yet not determined. It is likely that they have been called "atypical amyloidosis" in the past.

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