[Empathy, inter-professional collaboration, and lifelong medical learning in Spanish and Latin-American physicians-in-training who start their postgraduate training in hospitals in Spain. Preliminary outcomes].

Objective: To identify similarities and differences in empathy, abilities toward inter-professional collaboration, and lifelong medical learning, between Spanish and Latin-American physicians-in-training who start their posgraduate training in teaching hospitals in Spain.

Design: Observational study using self-administered questionnaires.

Settings: Five teaching hospitals in the province of Barcelona, Spain.

Monoclonal antibody analysis of crescentic membranous glomerulonephropathy.

Idiopathic membranous glomerulonephropathy (MG) has a rather benign prognosis. Acute renal failure with cellular crescents superimposed on MG is unusual and its pathogenesis is not fully understood. We report 3 patients with crescentic MG who showed strong glomerular and interstitial infiltration of leukocytes (CD45), T lymphocytes (CD3), helper/inducer T cells (CD4), cytotoxic/suppressor T cells (CD8), and monocyte-macrophages (CD14).

[Hodgkin's disease complicated with autoimmune thrombocytopenic purpura and a nephrotic syndrome due to deposition of circulating immunocomplexes (author's transl)].

This report deals with a case of Hodgkin's disease presenting during its evolution with autoimmune thrombocytopenic purpura and a nephrotic syndrome with extramembranous glomerulonephritis. The histopathological study of renal tissue demonstrated the presence of IgG and the C3 fraction of complement in the extramembranous deposits. The same type of immunoglobulins and C3 existed in the serum as circulating immunocomplexes, suggesting that the glomerulonephritis was due to the deposition of such immunocomplexes in the glomerular membrane.