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Membranous glomerulonephritis MRI

Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]; Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Syed Ahsan Hussain, M.D.[2]

Overview

Renal MRI may be helpful in the diagnosis of membranous glomerulonephritis. MRI may shows the total loss of corticomedullary differentiation

MRI

  • Renal MRI may be helpful in the diagnosis of membranous glomerulonephritis. Findings on MRI suggestive of membranous glomerulonephritis include:[1]
    • The total loss of corticomedullary differentiation
    • Abnormality in right upper-pole-calix

References

  1. Leung AW, Bydder GM, Steiner RE, Bryant DJ, Young IR (December 1984). “Magnetic resonance imaging of the kidneys”. AJR Am J Roentgenol. 143 (6): 1215–27. doi:10.2214/ajr.143.6.1215. PMID 6388280.

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