Renal anatomy and histology -- Development of the kidney -- Primer on the pathologic diagnosis of renal disease -- The nephrotic syndrome and minimal change disease -- Focal segmental glomerulosclerosis -- Membranous glomerulonephritis -- Membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis -- Acute postinfectious glomerulonephritis and glomerulonephritis caused by presistent bacterial infection -- Renal injury associated with human immunodeficiency virus infection -- IgA nephropathy and henoch-schhönlein purpura nephritis -- Alport's syndrome, thin basement membrane nephropathy, nail-patella syndrome, the type III collagen glomerulopathy -- Renal disease in systemic lupus erythematosus, mixed connective tissue disease, Sjögren's syndrome, and rheumatoid arthritis -- Anti-glomerular basement membrane glomerulonephritis and goodpasture's sndrome -- Pauci-immune and antineutrophil cytoplasmic autoantibody-mediated crescentic glomerulonephritis and vasculitis -- Renal involvement in polyarteritis nodosa, Kawasaki disease, takayasu arteritis and giant cell arteritis -- Hemolytic uremic syndrome, thrombotic thromboyctopenic purpura, and other thrombotic microangiopathies -- Renal diseases in pregnancy -- Diabetic nephropathy -- Renal dieases associated with plasma cell dyscrasias, amyloidoses, waldenström macroglobulinemia, and cryoglobulinemic nephropathies -- Glomercular diseases with organized deposits -- Renal disease caused by hypertension -- Pyelonephritis and other infections, reflux nephropathy, hydronephrosis, and nephrolithiasis -- Acute and chronic tubulointerstitial nephritis -- Ischemic and toxic acute tubular injury and other ischemic renal injury -- Renal disease caused by familial metabolic and hematologic diseases -- Cystic diseases and development kidney defects -- End-stage renal disease -- Renal transplant pathology -- Renal neoplasms.