Educational Case: Antiglomerular Basement Membrane Disease as an Example of Antibody-Mediated Glomerulonephritis

Acad Pathol. 2020 Mar 30:7:2374289520911185. doi: 10.1177/2374289520911185. eCollection 2020 Jan-Dec.

Abstract

The following fictional case is intended as a learning tool within the Pathology Competencies for Medical Education (PCME), a set of national standards for teaching pathology. These are divided into three basic competencies: Disease Mechanisms and Processes, Organ System Pathology, and Diagnostic Medicine and Therapeutic Pathology. For additional information, and a full list of learning objectives for all three competencies, see http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/2374289517715040.1.

Keywords: antiglomerular basement membrane (antibody-mediated) glomerulonephritis; immune complex–mediated glomerulonephritis; immune-mediated renal disease; kidney; nephritic syndrome; organ system pathology; pathology competencies; renal syndromes.