Heptinstall’s Pathology of the Kidney

Selected as a Doody’s Core Title for 2023!

For nearly 60 years, Heptinstall’s Pathology of the Kidney has been the reference of choice for both pathologists and nephrologists for expert, authoritative coverage of kidney disease. The fully revised and reorganized Eighth Edition, edited by Drs. J. Charles Jennette, Vivette D. D’Agati, Agnes B. Fogo, Volker Nickeleit and Michael Barry Stokes offers thorough pathologic descriptions, important clinical correlations, and up-to-date discussions of causes and pathogenesis to improve understanding of kidney disease and to facilitate accurate diagnosis and optimum care of patients with kidney disease. Now in a single volume, this image-rich text conveys the unique challenges and intricacies of renal disease, offering powerful diagnostic and treatment recommendations from decades of clinical research. 

• Features a completely reorganized, single volume format, with more than 60 concise chapters covering all kidney diseases 
• Provides comprehensive yet concise information on pathology, differential diagnosis and clinicopathologic correlations, as well as useful overviews of pathogenesis, demographics/epidemiology, and relevant clinical presentation, treatment, and outcomes 
• Contains numerous diagnostic algorithms throughout 
• Offers clinically oriented, quick-reference content on patterns of injury and classification

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Table of Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Contributors

Preface

Tribute

Preface to the First Edition (1966)

Acknowledgments

Contents

SECTION 1 Introduction to Kidney Pathology

1.1 Kidney Pathology History and Kidney Biopsy Methods

1.2 Primer on the Pathologic Classification and Diagnosis of Kidney Disease

SECTION 2 Kidney Anatomy, Histology, and Development

2.1 Kidney Anatomy and Histology

2.2 Kidney Development

SECTION 3 Kidney Congenital Anomalies and Cystic Diseases

3.1 Patterns of Injury, Terminology, and Classification of Kidney Congenital Anomalies and Cystic Diseases

3.2 Kidney Congenital Anomalies Including Dysplasia

3.3 Cystic Kidney Disease

SECTION 4 Glomerular Disease Associated With Proteinuria and Nephrotic Syndrome

4.1 Patterns of Injury, Terminology, and Classification of Glomerular Diseases Associated With

4.2 Minimal Change Disease

4.3 Focal Segmental Glomerulosclerosis

4.4 Membranous Nephropathy

4.5 Amyloidosis

4.6 Monoclonal Immunoglobulin-Related Glomerular Disease

4.7 Immunotactoid Glomerulopathy

4.8 Diabetic Kidney Disease

4.9 Idiopathic Nodular Glomerulosclerosis

4.10 Metabolic and Storage Disease Glomerulopathies

4.11 Fibronectin Glomerulopathy

4.12 Collagenofibrotic Glomerulopathy and Nail-Patella Syndrome

SECTION 5 Glomerular Disease Associated With Hematuria and Nephritic Syndrome

5.1 Patterns of Injury, Terminology, and Classification of Glomerular Diseases Associated With Hematuria and Nephritic Syndrome

5.2 IgA Nephropathy and IgA Vasculitis (Henoch-Schönlein Purpura) Nephritis

5.3 Lupus Nephritis and Related Autoimmune Diseases

5.4 Fibrillary Glomerulonephritis

5.5 Cryoglobulinemic Glomerulonephritis

5.6 Acute Post-infectious Glomerulonephritis and Infection-Associated Glomerulonephritis

5.7 C3 Glomerulopathy

5.8 Anti–Glomerular Basement Membrane Disease

5.9 Antineutrophil Cytoplasmic Autoantibody Disease

5.10 Alport Syndrome/Type IV Collagen Nephropathies

SECTION 6 Kidney Vasculopathies

6.1 Patterns of Injury, Classification, and Diagnostic Algorithm of Kidney Vasculopathies

6.2 Kidney Disease Related to Hypertension and Age

6.3 Fibromuscular Dysplasia

6.4 Thrombotic Microangiopathies

6.5 Preeclampsia and Other Pregnancy-Associated Kidney Disease

6.6 Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation

6.7 Atherosclerosis and Embolic Kidney Disease

6.8 Polyarteritis Nodosa, Kawasaki Disease, Takayasu Arteritis, and Giant Cell Arteritis

SECTION 7 Tubulointerstitial Disease

7.1 Patterns of Injury, Terminology, and Classification of Tubulointerstitial Disease

7.2 Infection-Related Tubulointerstitial Nephritis

7.3 Noninfectious Tubulointerstitial Nephritis

7.4 IgG4-Related Disease

7.5 Chronic Interstitial Nephritis in Agricultural Communities (Mesoamerican Nephropathy, CKDu) and Aristolochic Acid Nephropathy (Balkan Endemic Nephropathy)

7.6 Nephronophthisis, Medullary Cystic Disease, and Other Genetic Tubular Disease

7.7 Ischemic and Septic Acute Tubular Injury and Cortical Necrosis

7.8 Nephrotoxic Acute Tubular Injury

7.9 Light Chain Tubulopathies

7.10 Light Chain (Myeloma) Cast Nephropathy and Mimics

7.11 Myoglobin, Hemoglobin, and Bile Cast Nephropathies, and Anticoagulant Nephropathy

7.12 Nephrolithiasis and Crystallopathies

7.13 Obstructive and Reflux Nephropathy

SECTION 8 Transplant Pathology

8.1 Patterns of Injury, Terminology, and Classification of Kidney Transplant Disease

8.2 Kidney Allograft Biopsy: Overview

8.3 Donor Kidney Biopsies

8.4 Kidney Transplant Rejection

8.5 Kidney Transplant Ischemic Injury

8.6 Kidney Transplant: Drug Toxicity

8.7 Kidney Transplant Infection

8.8 Recurrent and De Novo Disease

8.9 Posttransplant Lymphoproliferative Disorders

8.10 Kidney Transplant: Surgical and Vascular Complications

SECTION 9 Kidney Neoplasms

9.1 Patterns of Injury, Terminology, and Classification of Kidney Neoplasms

9.2 Kidney Neoplasms in Children

9.3 Kidney Neoplasms in Adults