
doi: 10.1007/bf00427001
pmid: 205038
Electron microscopical changes in the glomeruli in 20 kidney biopsies from 18 patients, who were suffering from or had lately suffered from Nephropathia epidemica were studied. Various kinds of deposits were seen. Under the endothelial cells there were collections of light flocculent material. Small dark deposits were seen in the mesangium at the mesangial cell processes, inside the thickened basement membrane, and occasionally on the epithelial side of the membrane. Large deposits were seen around mesangial cells in the mesangium. Deposits were less numerous than in chronic immune complex diseases. The intramembranous or subepithelial deposits were associated with "moon craters", membranous convoluted structures or membrane debris. Granular extracellular mesangial material, round extracellular particles and intraendothelial microtubular inclusions were occasionally seen. In two of our cases occasional capsular epithelial cells showed numerous myelin bodies. Typical viruses were not seen in the glomeruli. The findings are in accord with the short period of scanty immune complex deposition in the glomeruli in the clinically active phase of Nephropathia epidemica.
Adult, Inclusion Bodies, Male, Adolescent, Biopsy, Kidney Glomerulus, Antigen-Antibody Complex, Middle Aged, Kidney, Microtubules, Basement Membrane, Disease Outbreaks, Microscopy, Electron, Humans, Female, Kidney Diseases, Endothelium, Extracellular Space
Adult, Inclusion Bodies, Male, Adolescent, Biopsy, Kidney Glomerulus, Antigen-Antibody Complex, Middle Aged, Kidney, Microtubules, Basement Membrane, Disease Outbreaks, Microscopy, Electron, Humans, Female, Kidney Diseases, Endothelium, Extracellular Space
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