Core Concepts in Parenchymal Kidney Disease

Chapter 1

General Approach to the Diagnosis and Management of Glomerular Diseases

David Philibert and Daniel C. Cattran

Chapter 2

Minimal Change Disease in Adults

Jonathan Hogan and Jai Radhakrishnan

Chapter 3

Childhood Onset Nephrotic Syndrome

Howard Trachtman, Matthew Sampson, Christine B. Sethna, and Debbie S. Gipson

Chapter 4

Focal and Segmental Glomerulosclerosis

Moumita Barua and Martin R. Pollak

Chapter 5

Membranous Nephropathy

Fernando C. Fervenza, Patrizia Passerini, Sanjeev Sethi, and Claudio Ponticelli

Chapter 6

Membranoproliferative Glomerulonephritis

Sanjeev Sethi and Fernando C. Fervenza

Chapter 7

Cryoglobulinemias

Dario Roccatello and Antonello Pani

Chapter 8

IgA Nephropathy and Schöenlein-Henoch Purpura Nephritis

Antonello Pani and Dario Roccatello

Chapter 9

Anti-Glomerular Basement Membrane Disease

Alan D. Salama

Chapter 10

Pathogenesis and Management of ANCA-Associated Vasculitis

Ulrich Specks

Chapter 11

Systemic Lupus Erythematosus and the Kidney

Brad H. Rovin, Daniel J. Birmingham, and Tibor Nadasdy

Chapter 12

Tropical Infectious Diseases and the Kidney

Elizabeth De Francesco Daher, Geraldo Bezerra da Silva Junior, Elvino Barros, and Domingos O. d'Avila

Chapter 13

Glomerular Diseases Associated with HIV, Hepatitis B, and Hepatitis C Infections

Jasmine Riviere Marcelin, Lynda A. Szczech, and Stacey Rizza

Chapter 14

Cytomegalovirus, BK and Other Viral Infections of the Kidney

Nathan W. Cummins and M. Rizwan Sohail

Chapter 15

Thrombotic Microangiopathies: Thrombus Formation due to Common or Related Mechanisms?

Peter F. Zipfel and Christine