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Query: UMLS:C0034186 (pyelonephritis)
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We studied a case of xanthogranulomatous (XG) endometritis associated with endometrial adenocarcinoma. Isolated XG endometritis is a rare entity that may mimic carcinoma as a consequence of the replacement of the endometrium and the invasion of the myometrium by friable yellowish tissue composed of foamy histiocytes. To our knowledge, it has not previously been described as coexisting with a carcinoma. The XG reaction is characterized by pigment-laden foamy cells. Electron microscopy demonstrated that the foamy cells belong to the macrophage/histiocyte series and are not endometrial stromal cells. Histochemical studies revealed the pigment to be composed of hemosiderin and lipofuscin. The absence of calcispherites or a uniform immunoperoxidase staining reaction for alpha 1-antitrypsin excluded the diagnosis of malacoplakia. We have postulated that XG endometritis has a similar etiopathogenesis to XG pyelonephritis and XG cholecystitis. It is a rare morphologic expression of the clinical syndrome of benign senile pyometrium.
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PMID:Xanthogranulomatous endometritis associated with endometrial carcinoma. 383 38

Human nephrectomy specimens with ischemic glomerular changes were studied by colloidal iron staining and immunofluorescence with respect to glomerular polyanion, immunoprotein deposition and proteinase inhibitor deposition. In the sclerotic area of ischemic glomerular changes, polyanion loss and deposition of IgM, Clq, C4 and C3 were observed. These findings were common in cases with and without chronic pyelonephritis showing a considerable similarity to the glomerular changes of experimental focal sclerosis in rats or focal sclerosing glomerulonephropathy in human. alpha 1-Antitrypsin and alpha 2-macroglobulin (proteinase inhibitors) were also found in the sclerotic area. In particular, alpha 1-antitrypsin was always present in the sclerotic portions of every atrophic nephron and an important role of alpha 1-antitrypsin in atrophy of nephrons was suggested.
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PMID:Polyanion, immunoprotein and proteinase inhibitor in ischemic glomerular change. 617 Aug 99

Sclerotic processes of glomeruli in chronic pyelonephritis (CPN) and chronic diffuse proliferative glomerulonephritis (CDPGN) were investigated in a lectin binding study in connection with an immunofluorescent examination of protease inhibitor deposition. Ulex europaeus agglutinin-I (UEA-I), which is specific to a certain terminal alpha-L-fucosyl residue of glycoconjugates, specifically labelled intact endothelia of glomerular capillaries, peritubular capillaries and blood vessels in human kidneys. Segmental or global loss of the UEA-I binding with glomerular capillaries was observed in the sclerotic areas where alpha 1-antitrypsin (alpha 1AT) deposits were always detected in the glomeruli with segmental or global sclerosis of CPN. This high correlation between loss of UEA-I binding and alpha 1AT deposition was also observed in the affected glomeruli of CDPGN. In considering glomerular sclerosis, it is significant that loss of UEA-I binding and alpha 1AT deposition are common to both CPN and CDPGN, although their original etiologies are quite different.
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PMID:Deposition of alpha 1-antitrypsin and loss of glycoconjugate carrying Ulex europaeus agglutinin-I binding sites in the glomerular sclerotic process. Phenomena common to chronic pyelonephritis and chronic diffuse proliferative glomerulonephritis. 633 65