Lonnie Thach

Lonnie Thach

@lthach.bsky.social

Nephrologist. Medstar. Washington DC

928 Followers 751 Following 6 Posts Joined Nov 2024
8 months ago

Fibrillary GN!

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1 year ago
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SM stain. Patient with IRGN, low power looks like hyalogranular cast, but with careful inspection, there’s RBCs buried underneath
#urinesediment

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1 year ago

Wow, how much proteinuria?

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1 year ago

Yeah, that seems wrong. Do cardiologists hate “Hef ref”? Kinda the same vein

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1 year ago

Just waiting for Dr Quaggin now 🙏

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1 year ago
JCI - Isidore S. Edelman

The study of body fluid compartments peaked in the 1950s with the isotope dilution studies by #Edelman and coworkers.
His contribution was ended due to “un-american activities“: He had communist friends and had attended parties with them …

www.jci.org/articles/vie...

#NephSky #SkyNeph #MedHistory

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White blood cell (WBC) cast in a #UrinarySediment specimen treated with Prescott-Brodie stain (aka Mohty stain pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...). WBC turn blue. Note that phase contrast allows better🔬of the cast matrix. Case of C3 glomerulonephritis. #UrineMicroscopy #PisseProphet

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1 year ago

One of my old attendings has a dog named podocyte or podo for short

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