Class IV Lupus Nephritis in the Setting of Serologically Quiescent Disease and Normal Urine Sediment in a Patient with Late-Onset Systemic Lupus Erythematosus

<div>Immunofluorescence pathology slides. Mesangium showing focal moderate granular staining along the (a) GBM IgG (trace to 1+), (b) GBM IgA (1+ to 2+), (c) GBM IgM (4+), (d) GBM C1Q (2+ to 3+), and (e) GBM C3 (1+ to 2+) and (f) electron microscopy slide. No globally sclerotic glomeruli, no significant podocyte foot effacement (about 10%), numerous amorphous electron dense deposits are predominantly subendothelial.</div>

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Figure 2: Class IV Lupus Nephritis in the Setting of Serologically Quiescent Disease and Normal Urine Sediment in a Patient with Late-Onset Systemic Lupus Erythematosus 

Figure 2 | Class IV Lupus Nephritis in the Setting of Serologically Quiescent Disease and Normal Urine Sediment in a Patient with Late-Onset Systemic Lupus Erythematosus 