Alcino Gama
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Alcino Gama
@alcinogama.bsky.social
Pathologist, Renal/GU fellow @BWH 2025-2027
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The Renal Pathology Society warmly invites nephropathologists and non-pathologists involved in the interpretation of kidney biopsies to participate in a global survey.
More info. below 👇
renalpathsoc.org/RPS-Internat...
@glomcon.org @theisn.org #renalpath #pathsky #nephsky
August 19, 2025 at 3:19 AM
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Multi-focal severe necrotizing arteritis in a kidney biopsy with an ANCA vasculitis. Interestingly, foci of arteritis were only present in IF/EM tissue. Illustrating how even when severe arteritis can be easily missed due to sampling in a small biopsy. #renalpath #nephsky #pathsky
August 15, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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Course Director Dr. Alexandros D. Polydorides provided this quick case overview for us.

my.uscap.org/app/program/...

Clinical history: 67 F with prior appendectomy, now presenting with an implant in the mesentery of the jejunum.

#PathSky
August 12, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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Excuse the “taking a picture of a computer screen” quality here - this looks like early MN pattern (IgG, IgG1 here) by IF, but EM has absolutely no deposits (EM on frozen material done on this glom). Still MN (“by IF only”?!)? @glombandit.bsky.social @arkanalabs.bsky.social @jzrenalpath.bsky.social
August 9, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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We are looking for a 3rd renal pathologist to join our team here at UCLA. Please see the job description here: recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF10146. It's a great department and LA is a great city. #renalpath #pathsky
Renal Pathologist
University of California, Los Angeles is hiring. Apply now!
recruit.apo.ucla.edu
May 28, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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A polyoma virus 'crescents' in a case of BK nephropathy in a kidney transplant patient. SV40 demonstrates parietal epithelial cell positivity on deeper levels. BK viremia >3 million recently. #renalpath #pathsky #nephsky
May 6, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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"If you are only going to do 1 biopsy, do the second" - Gary Hill

Rovin et al get the 2nd kidney bx in this lupus nephritis study using voclosporin and did not find CNI toxicity

acrjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Effect of long‐term voclosporin treatment on renal histology in patients with active lupus nephritis with repeat renal biopsies
Objective This study characterized the impact of voclosporin on kidney histology in patients with lupus nephritis (LN) who had protocolized repeat kidney biopsies in the AURORA clinical trials. Me...
acrjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
May 3, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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Website Update ✨ Going forward, sample questions in our topics will be termed "Practice questions." These were formerly called "Board review style questions."

Learn more: pathologyoutlinesblog.wordpress.com/2025/04/25/2...

#Pathology #PathologyOutlines #PathSky
April 25, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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Will you be at USCAP in Boston next week? Visit us at Booth #840!

Find out what awaits you at our booth: buff.ly/8G6UPkm

#Pathology #PathologyOutlines #USCAP #USCAP2025
March 17, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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A cute finding in apocrine metaplasia, do you know what it is? #breastpath #pathsky #pathtwitter #pathx #patologia
February 4, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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Pronase IF can be very helpful in cases of cryo-GN as the frozen IF is often masked. This case also showed classic hyaline pseudo-thrombi, cryo-vasculitis, and microtubules by EM. #renalpath #pathsky #nephsky
February 5, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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Several CDC websites and datasets related to HIV, LGBTQ people, youth health behaviors and more have been removed after the agency was directed to comply with an executive order from President Donald Trump.
CDC websites, datasets taken down as agency complies with Trump executive order | CNN
Several US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention websites and datasets related to HIV, LGBTQ people, youth health behaviors and more have been removed after the agency was directed to comply with...
www.cnn.com
January 31, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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As an expert on death, I’m stating the obvious by saying #DEI has no role in air traffic fatalities.

Also, aviation is one of the least diverse professions - <5% of commercial pilots are women and >90% of pilots and flight engineers are from non-ethnic backgrounds.

Yet another baseless claim..😒
cnn.com CNN @cnn.com · Jan 31
President Trump blamed the FAAs “diversity push” in part for the plane collision that killed 67 people in Washington, DC. But DEI backers, including most top US companies, believe a push for diversity has been good for their businesses
Trump is attacking DEI. Big businesses believe DEI is valuable | CNN Business
DEI backers, including most top US companies, believe a push for diversity has been good for their businesses.
cnn.it
February 1, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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Case of the Month: An 82 year old female patient presented with a 3.5 cm sized, well circumscribed, nodular skin lesion on the cheek showing the following histomorphologic and immunohistochemical findings. What is your diagnosis?

Select the link in the comments for the case!

January 30, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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Image of the Week!

Submitted by: Nurul Bahiyah Binti Baharudin, M.D.
Directory Profile: https://buff.ly/40OGjAR
Subspecialty: Dermatopathology
Diagnosis: Sporothrix asteroid bodies

#Pathology #PathologyOutlines #DermPath
January 29, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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What I'm looking for in #placenta membranes:
MVM incl
. Decidual arteriopathy
. Mural hypertrophy
. Atherosis and fibrinoid necrosis
January 23, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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Maternal inflammatory response stage 2, acute chorioamnionitis - more than a few neutrophils in the fibrous chorion and amnion. I need to see subchorio as well.
January 23, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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Example of necrotizing lupus vasculopathy. Hilar arterioles with luminal immune complex deposit and mural necrosis. Ig deposition in lumen of vessel and fibrinogen staining by IF. #renalpath #pathsky #nephsky
January 24, 2025 at 1:26 AM