Minimal mesangial glomerulonephritis explained

Specialty:	Nephrology

Minimal mesangial glomerulonephritis is a type of glomerulonephritis that is seen in 10% to 25% of SLE cases and is associated with mild clinical symptoms. Immune complexes deposit in the mesangium, with a slight increase in the mesangial matrix and cellularity.^[1]

Further reading

• Mok . CC . Cheung . TT . Lo . WH . Minimal mesangial lupus nephritis: a systematic review . Scandinavian Journal of Rheumatology . Informa UK Limited . 39 . 3 . February 18, 2010 . 0300-9742 . 10.3109/03009740903456300 . 181–189 . none.
• Fogo . Agnes B. . Lusco . Mark A. . Najafian . Behzad . Alpers . Charles E. . AJKD Atlas of Renal Pathology: Minimal Mesangial and Mesangial Proliferative Lupus Nephritis (ISN/RPS Class I and II) . American Journal of Kidney Diseases . Elsevier BV . 70 . 2 . 2017 . 0272-6386 . 10.1053/j.ajkd.2017.06.002 . e7–e8 . none.

Notes and References

1. Book: Robbins, Stanley L. . Kumar, Vinay . Robbins basic pathology . Saunders/Elsevier . 2007 . 142 . 978-0-8089-2366-4 .