Case Studies
Content and Design:
Paul F. Shanley, M.D.
Karen C. Kelly, M.S.
The following is a series of mini-cases with brief clinical summaries and relevant images. In addition, many of the cases include a series of study questions and comments to help direct your thinking about the issues raised by the cases.
Off to a Bad Start
A Little Too Late
Misfolded and Stuffed
A Dread Sense of Inevitability and Helplessness
A New Test Brings Clarity
Orphan Andrew
Conventional Folly
Leaping Before Looking
A Rock and a Hard Place
Long Way Around
Monday's Child
The Sad Truth
The Eternal Return
Flooded Lowlands
Crossing Boundaries
Lucky Strike
It All Comes Back to Me Now
Bloody Catastrophe
A Dry Eye in the House
Pox in the Box
Unwelcome Travelers
Questions Abound
Getting Over the Hump
Muddled Waters
Missed That Train
No Win Situation
Dark Clouds
Enigma Wrapped in Mystery
Inside Job
A series of lists is provided to help answer the questions raised in the mini-cases.
List 1: Clinical Presentations of Renal DiseaseList 2: Morphologic Patterns of Renal Injury and "Primary" Renal Diseases
List 3: Systemic Diseases with Possible Renal Involvement