Masato Sawamura, Naoki Sawa, Hiroki Mizuno, Yuki Oba, Daisuke Ikuma, Akinari Sekine, Masayuki Yamanouchi, Eiko Hasegawa, Tatsuya Suwabe, Masanori Suzuki, Kei Kono, Keiichi Kinowaki, Kenichi Ohashi, Takashi Ehara, Yoichiro Ikeda, Toshihiro Sawai, Yoshifumi Ubara
We performed a kidney biopsy in a 36-year-old man to evaluate microscopic hematuria and proteinuria. Light microscopy showed increased mesangial matrix and partial swelling of the glomerular basement membrane (GBM), and immunofluorescence showed positive staining only for C3. Immunoelectron microscopy showed that gold particle-labeled C3 was localized in the electron-dense and moderately electron-dense deposits shown by electron microscopy in the mesangium, the thickened GBM near the paramesangium, and the thickened distal portion of the GBM but was not localized in the non-thickened GBM...
2023: Clinical Nephrology. Case Studies