A dark-blue branding cover: the NGU School of Medicine wordmark bottom-left, the tagline "Towards unbounded thinking" top-right, a faint triangle pattern behind both. No lecture content — no title, no author, no topic. Nothing — decorative cover slide.
Full-slide render of the title card: "ICC-3 (028) Interstitial nephritis", author Mona Roushdy / Professor of Internal Medicine and Nephrology / Cairo University / her email, "Academic year 2025-2026" top-left, NGU logo top-right. Every line is already text at the rows above. Nothing beyond the text rows above it — bare title card, no diagram.
Full-slide render of the "Intended learning objectives" bullet list, already text at the rows above (define, list causes, describe pathology, summarise clinical picture, outline treatment, differentiate acute/chronic). Nothing beyond the text rows above it — plain bullet list, no figure.click any line to explain it

A labelled nephron cross-section. Top: Afferent Arteriole and Efferent Arteriole feeding a glomerular tuft of Capillary Loops inside Bowman's Space. Below it, a tubule runs down as PCT, bends through the Loop of Henle, rises as DCT, and drains into the Collecting Duct.
Draws the exact boundary the text only states in words: arterioles/capillary loops/Bowman's space are the glomerulus; PCT, Loop of Henle, DCT and collecting duct are the tubule — the structures this disease involves while sparing the glomerulus. The diagram also draws the glomerular structures (arterioles, capillary loops) in red against black tubule lines, matching her red highlighting of 'outside the glomerulus', 'tubules' and 'interstitium' in the text beside it.
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Full-slide render of the "Drugs (70%)" bullet list, already text at the rows above, plus a small four-pill icon with no labels. Her own emphasis: the section label Drugs (70%): is highlighted yellow, and penicillin, non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, and proton pump inhibitors are independently bolded within the lists — not every drug name is plain as this record previously implied. The icon beside it is decorative.click any line to explain it
Full-slide render of the "Infection (15%)" etc. bullet list, already text at the rows above, plus three unlabelled icons placed beside matching bullets: microbes next to Infection, an eye next to TINU, and an inflamed joint next to the systemic-disorders/lupus line. Nothing new — icons just illustrate the adjacent bullet's topic (eye = the uveitis in TINU, joint = the arthralgia/lupus theme), no extra labels or values.click any line to explain it
Not a repeat. The opening Outline listed Pathogenesis as item 2; this one drops it and renumbers everything below, so what was item 3 is now item 2.
Why this matters: Shows the lecturer dropped Pathogenesis from the outline after it was taught (she covers it at the rows above, thirty lines before this slide) — its absence here is her own edit, not a gap in these notes.
Full-slide render of the same Outline list already text at the rows above, verbatim repeat of the earlier Outline slide. Nothing new — item 3 ('Drug induced Acute tubulointerstitial nephritis' and its four sub-points: Pathology, Clinical Picture, Treatment, Other causes of ATN) is bold black; item 4 ('Chronic Tubulointerstitial nephritis' and its sub-points) is grey. The bold/grey marks item 3 as the section now underway, a running position marker across the repeated Outline slides.
A section-divider title card: "Drug induced acute inerstitial nephritis" (sic, matches the heading typo) beside a four-pill icon, on an otherwise blank slide. Nothing — bare section-title card, no diagram.
A stained kidney biopsy micrograph with arrows to four labelled findings: Inflammatory Cell Infiltrate (two separate patches of interstitium), Eosinophils, Tubulitis ("inflammatory cells in tubular wall") pointing into a tubule lumen, and Neutrophils in peritubular capillary pointing to a capillary. A decorative cartoon eosinophil icon sits top-left.
Names two findings the text bullet never states: tubulitis (inflammatory cells inside the tubular wall itself) and neutrophils specifically in the peritubular capillary — the text only says "interstitial cellular infiltrate often including eosinophils, with variable tubular necrosis." Her own emphasis, separately: Interstitial is bolded and eosinophils is highlighted yellow in the bullet text itself — the conversion keeps the words and drops both.
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Full-slide render of the "Clinical picture of drug induced AIN" bullet list, already text at the rows above, plus three unlabelled icons: a cartoon eosinophil, a blood-collection tube, and a urine specimen cup. Her own emphasis: the word Mild is printed in red on the slide, the only coloured word in the clinical picture. The icons beside the bullets are decorative.click any line to explain it

Two clinical photographs, no labels or arrows. Left: close-up of an upper arm/shoulder with a widespread, confluent, blanching erythematous maculopapular (morbilliform) rash. Right: a forearm on a green surgical drape showing a diffuse, finer erythematous maculopapular rash over the skin.
This slide has no bullet text of its own — the heading "Clinical features" carries nothing else. It is the only place in the deck that shows what the drug rash actually looks like: a confluent, blanching, morbilliform eruption, illustrating the "fever, arthralgia, skin rashes" bullet from the earlier Clinical picture slide (the row above), which only names the finding.
Full-slide render of the Investigations text already at the rows above (ultrasound favors-but-doesn't-prove; biopsy is definitive; biopsy shows mononuclear/eosinophilic infiltrate sparing glomeruli), plus an unlabelled cartoon eosinophil icon. Her own emphasis: three phrases are highlighted red on the slide — favors, Kidney biopsy (the definitive test), and eosinophilic. The text conversion keeps the words and drops the emphasis; the eosinophil icon is decorative.click any line to explain it
Full-slide render of the same Outline list already text at the rows above, a further verbatim repeat. Nothing new — the bold/plain styling marks item 3 as the section reached, a running position marker. The wording is unchanged from the other Outline slides.
Full-slide render of the Treatment bullet list already text at the rows above (stop the drug; high-dose prednisolone 60 mg daily; most recover, some progress to fibrosis/CKD). No image, icon, or diagram beyond the text. Her own emphasis: stopping is highlighted red, and High-dose prednisolone (60 mg daily) is bolded, singling out the drug and dose. The text conversion keeps the words and drops the emphasis.click any line to explain it

A top-to-bottom flowchart. 'ARF with features of AIN' arrows down to 'Withdraw offending agent', then to 'Supportive care and close observation', which forks into 'Improvement' (arrowing down to 'Continue observation') and 'No improvement in 1 week OR rapid progression'. That box forks again into 'Classic allergic AIN' (down to a 'Corticosteroids' box) and 'Atypical features' (down to 'Renal biopsy'). 'Renal biopsy' alone forks a third time into 'Classic AIN', 'Granulomatous or other immune IN', and 'Fibrosis'. 'Classic AIN' arrows down to a second 'Corticosteroids' box; 'Granulomatous or other immune IN' runs left then down into that same 'Corticosteroids' box, not into 'Immunosuppressive drugs'; 'Fibrosis' arrows down to 'Conservative'. A separate horizontal arrow runs from Corticosteroids to Immunosuppressive drugs, linking the two drug boxes directly.
The arrows show exactly which finding leads to which treatment: both a classic clinical picture and a classic-AIN biopsy result lead to corticosteroids, and the granulomatous/immune biopsy result also arrows into corticosteroids rather than straight to immunosuppressants — that box is reached only via the further, separate arrow running from corticosteroids itself, a link no extracted text line states.
This traces her management flowchart (slide 17): each row is the next box in her diagram, not a cause of the one before it.
Why this matters: Every case in this algorithm passes through here first — stopping the drug and starting supportive care come before any branch point, so it is the one step no later branch skips.
Same flowchart, its first branch: each row below is what she draws following the finding beside it, not what causes it.
Why this matters: Marks the fork after supportive care: improving ends the workup with no biopsy or drug, while non-improvement is the branch that reaches steroids without a biopsy, if the picture is read as classic rather than atypical.
Same flowchart, the other branch from the same decision point: an atypical picture goes to biopsy instead of straight to treatment.
Why this matters: The mirror-image branch to the classic one beside it — atypical presentation is the one path the algorithm sends to biopsy before any treatment.
Same flowchart, its final branch: the biopsy reveals one of three patterns, each drawn to its own treatment box — the biopsy reveals which pattern is present, it does not cause any of them.
Why this matters: Shows biopsy revealing, not causing, which of three patterns is present: classic AIN and granulomatous/immune IN both arrow into the same Corticosteroids box as the clinical diagnosis, a further arrow from Corticosteroids reaches Immunosuppressive drugs, and fibrosis is the one result past which the algorithm turns conservative.
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A slide titled 'Outline' with a numbered list: 1. Definition, 2. Causes, 3. Drug induced Acute tubulointerstitial nephritis, followed by four un-numbered lines under it — Pathology, then arrow-bulleted Clinical Picture, Treatment, and Other causes of ATN (this last one in bold); then, after a gap, 4. Chronic Tubulointerstial nephritis with two arrow-bulleted lines, causes and Papillary necrosis.
The image shows 'Other causes of ATN' in bold face — a visual emphasis the plain-text extraction does not carry.
A clip-art kidney cell and a clip-art virus sit beside the bullets. No labels, arrows or captions on either icon. Her own emphasis: neutrophilic cellular infiltrate is highlighted yellow, and pyelonephritis, systemic infections, and cytomegalovirus, polyoma (BK) and herpes simplex are independently bolded on the slide — not the one phrase this record previously claimed. The text conversion keeps the words and drops all four emphases.click any line to explain it
A clip-art pair of lungs (next to Sarcoidosis) and a clip-art eye (next to TIN-with-uveitis) sit beside the bullets. No labels on either icon. Nothing — every bullet is already the row text above; the icons just illustrate the two named entities.click any line to explain it
Plain black text on white, centered: "Chronic interstitial nephritis". No image, no bullets. Nothing beyond the heading text already at the rows above.This Outline slide repeats the same four-item (the opening copy had five - Pathogenesis was dropped after it) contents list given four times earlier in the lecture (the rows above), but here — for the first time — item 4's sub-list gains two extra points, Pathology and Clinical picture, that none of the earlier copies have.
2 sub-points -> 4 sub-points, first appearing here
Why this matters: Flags a real change in the lecturer's own plan, not a repeat: this fifth pass through this outline is the first to promise Pathology and Clinical picture under chronic TIN, sections the four earlier copies never listed.
The full four-item outline list (Definition, Causes, Drug induced ATIN with its four sub-points, Chronic Tubulointerstitial nephritis with Causes/Pathology/Clinical picture/Papillary necrosis) is transcribed verbatim as the rows above (the rows above). Nothing new — the bold/plain styling marks item 4 as the section reached, a running position marker. The wording is unchanged from the other Outline slides.The lecture sorts causes of chronic interstitial nephritis into five named categories, each with its own examples.
Five categories, nineteen named causes, across two slides.
Why this matters: This is the lecture's own grouping of the nineteen causes named on these two slides into five categories, which is what lets a reader place any one of them (e.g. sarcoidosis, analgesics) without re-reading both slides bullet by bullet — it does not include the further chronic-TIN causes taught later (obstruction, reflux, recurrent UTI, hypercalcaemia), which sit outside this five-category list.

The same two bulleted lists as the text (drugs/toxins, then systemic disease), with three decorative icons added beside the list: a pill/capsule icon near the drug-cause lines, a bin icon labelled 'METAL' near the 'cadmium, lead, titanium' line, and a small unlabelled icon near the irradiation line. No extra causes or values are drawn.
The icons visually flag which bullets are drugs versus which are metals/toxins — a category cue the flat text list doesn't carry on its own.
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The same three bulleted lists as the text (metabolic, infection, miscellaneous), with 'Balkan nephropathy' and 'Herbal nephropathy' highlighted in yellow. No other bullet is highlighted, and no extra causes or values are drawn.
The yellow highlighting singles out Balkan nephropathy and herbal nephropathy specifically — an emphasis no text line states.
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A labelled photomicrograph captioned "Chronic Interstitial Nephritis": a glomerulus at upper left sits amid a dense purple lymphocytic/mononuclear infiltrate filling the interstitium between separated, atrophic-looking tubules, with pale pink patches of fibrosis.
The actual histologic appearance the three bullets only name in words — dense interstitial infiltrate, tubular atrophy, interstitial fibrosis, seen together in one field.
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The deck's own sixth and last learning objective is to 'differentiate between acute and chronic interstitial nephritis' (the row above); its outline lists only two headings shared by both sections — Pathology and Clinical picture (the rows above acute, the rows above chronic) — and puts the two names side by side on slide 27 (the rows above).
| Dimension | Acute TIN | Chronic TIN |
|---|---|---|
| Causes | Drugs (70%): antibiotics (cephalosporins, ciprofloxacin, erythromycin, penicillin, rifampicin, sulphonamides), analgesics (NSAIDs), diuretics (furosemide, thiazides), miscellaneous (allopurinol, carbamazepine, cimetidine, phenytoin, proton pump inhibitors, valproate); Infection (15%): viruses e.g. hantavirus, bacteria e.g. streptococci, acute pyelonephritis, and in immunocompromised/transplant patients cytomegalovirus, polyoma (BK) and herpes simplex virus; Idiopathic (8%); TINU (5%) with uveitis; systemic inflammatory disease e.g. SLE (2%), Sjögren, sarcoidosis, IgG4-related disorder | Drugs and toxins, e.g. all causes of acute tubulointerstitial nephritis (analgesics), ciclosporin, 5-aminosalicylates, cadmium/lead/titanium, irradiation; systemic disease e.g. diabetes mellitus, sickle cell disease or trait, SLE/vasculitis, sarcoidosis (granulomatous tubulointerstitial nephritis), IgG4-related disease; metabolic e.g. hyperuricaemia, nephrocalcinosis, hyperoxaluria; infection e.g. HIV, EBV; miscellaneous: hypertension, Balkan nephropathy, herbal nephropathy, Alport’s syndrome |
| Pathology | Interstitial cellular infiltrate, often including eosinophils, with variable tubular necrosis; rarely, NSAIDs can cause a glomerular minimal-change lesion in addition to TIN and disease presents as the nephrotic syndrome | Chronic inflammatory cellular infiltration of the interstitium; tubular atrophy; generalized interstitial oedema or fibrosis is present |
| Clinical picture | Asymptomatic (with impaired renal function found incidentally); fever, arthralgia, skin rashes; acute oliguric or non-oliguric kidney injury; tubular defects as i.e. aminoaciduria, glycosuria, renal tubular acidosis; many have eosinophilia and eosinophiluria; mild proteinuria, hematuria, and the presence of Pus cells | Onset is insidious; patients present with any of polyuria, nocturia; proteinuria (usually slight, <1 g daily); hypertension; uraemia |
| Treatment | Stopping the offending drug; high-dose prednisolone (60 mg daily) may reduce risk of dialysis-requiring AKI or shorten time to recovery; most patients make a good recovery in terms of kidney function, but some may be left with significant interstitial fibrosis and CKD | source silent |
Why this matters: This is the one place a reader can check pathology, presentation and treatment against each other in one pass instead of across ten slides — the causes cells hold only what's taught by this slide, not her full list; obstruction, reflux, and recurrent UTI, plus hypercalcaemia (her most-common cause), are taught on later slides and aren't in this table. It also surfaces that the lecture never gives chronic TIN a treatment section at all, unlike acute.

Two labelled photomicrographs. Left, "Acute interstitial nephritis": a glomerulus with a diffuse, dense cellular infiltrate packed between tubules that still look intact. Right, "Chronic interstitial nephritis": a glomerulus with a patchier infiltrate set in paler, more eosinophilic (fibrotic) interstitium around shrunken, atrophic-looking tubules.
The direct visual contrast between the two entities — the heading and caption at the rows above only name them, this image is the entire comparison.
The same four-item outline list transcribed verbatim in the rows above (the rows above). Nothing — a repeated Outline recap slide, purely navigational.
The slide is the same "Clinical picture" bullets already given at the rows above, plus the NGU School of Medicine corner logo. No separate figure or image content. Nothing beyond the row text above.click any line to explain it
The same four-item outline list transcribed verbatim in the rows above (the rows above). Nothing — a repeated Outline recap slide, purely navigational.
A clip-art medication-capsules icon sits beside the title. The "Analgesic nephropathy" heading and paragraph are already the row text at the rows above, unchanged. Nothing — the icon just illustrates "analgesics", no label or new data.click any line to explain it
The previous slide names analgesic use in general as leading to papillary necrosis; this slide gives the exact analgesic combinations that count as the risk factor.
Why this matters: Reading the two slides together turns a vague 'analgesics cause it' into the specific combinations she actually holds you to.

A labelled kidney outline captioned "Papillary necrosis — Always bilateral", with five pointer labels: Spurs and Hooks mark irregular calyceal outlines; Ring sign marks a sloughed papilla sitting free within a calyx; Clubbed calyces (sloughed papilla) marks a calyx left rounded after a papilla detaches; No loss of cortex is labelled on the outer kidney margin.
Every one of these five findings — spurs, hooks, ring sign, clubbed/sloughed-papilla calyces, preserved cortex, and that the process is always bilateral — is stated nowhere in the text rows; the bullets above only give mechanism and risk factors. Her own emphasis, separately: the risk-factor bullet beside the diagram highlights phenacetin, aspirin, and caffeine or phenacetin-acetaminophen or NSAIDs in red — not part of the diagram and not captured in this reading.
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The same labelled kidney diagram as slide32 — captioned "Papillary necrosis — Always bilateral", with Spurs, Hooks, Ring sign (sloughed papilla), Clubbed calyces (sloughed papilla) and No loss of cortex pointer-labelled — now shown beside the clinical-picture bullets (haematuria/sterile pyuria, ureteric colic/obstruction) instead of the risk-factor bullets.
Same five findings as slide32 (spurs, hooks, ring sign, clubbed calyces, preserved cortex, bilaterality), none stated in the clinical-picture text rows above.
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Papillary necrosis is given as its own heading a third time (after the rows above), with no new text captured beneath it here.
Why this matters: The heading itself is bare, but it sits directly above the slide34 figure record below — the CT image is the content this heading introduces, the radiologic correlate of papillary necrosis that no other slide in the lecture shows.

A coronal contrast CT of the abdomen labelled "Papillary necrosis" at left. Two arrowheads point into the left kidney's collecting-system region, marking a filling defect/lucency at the renal papilla consistent with a sloughed papilla; the right kidney shows no such marked defect. A speaker icon (audio) sits at bottom right.
The radiologic (CT) correlate of papillary necrosis — an arrow-marked filling defect in the affected papilla — which no other slide in this lecture shows.
A plain bullet-text slide with the section title 'Obstructive Uropathy' and four bullets, each already present verbatim in the rows above. No diagram, image or table — only red-highlighted keywords over the same sentences. Her own emphasis: the lead phrase of each bullet is highlighted red on the slide — Obstruction of urinary outflow, Modest proteinuria, Vesicoureteral reflux, and urinary tract infection. The text conversion keeps the words and drops the emphasis.click any line to explain it

A classification of urinary outflow obstruction by anatomic level, each level labelled with its own causes: Pelvis — calculi, tumours, ureteropelvic stricture; Ureter (intrinsic) — calculi, tumours, clots, sloughed papillae, inflammation; Ureter (extrinsic) — pregnancy, tumours (e.g. cervix), retroperitoneal fibrosis; a separate Vesicoureteral reflux label with no causes given; Bladder — calculi, tumours, functional (e.g. neurogenic); Urethra — posterior valve stricture, tumours (rare); Prostate — hyperplasia, carcinoma, prostatitis. Referenced to Robins Pathological Basis of Diseases, 6th ed.
The labels are organised by anatomic level along the outflow tract, which the flat run of text lines does not itself display as one ordered structure.
The urinary outflow tract can be obstructed at any of several levels, and slide 37 gives the typical causes at each.
Six levels, kidney to prostate, each with its own short list of causes.
Why this matters: Working out the level of obstruction narrows the cause list, though several causes overlap across levels — calculi appear at three of the six, and tumours at five of six.
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A plain IVP film. Both pelvicalyceal systems are dilated and both ureters are wide down their length; the opacified bladder sits low in the pelvis with an irregular, ragged outline rather than a smooth one.
The film shows the dilatation is bilateral and symmetrical and runs the whole length of both ureters, and the opacified bladder has an irregular, ragged outline — extent the text line names but does not itself draw. Her own emphasis, separately: 'bladder outlet obstruction' is bold and red in the caption text.
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A plain bullet-text slide titled 'Lead nephropathy' with four bullets, each already present verbatim in the rows above (industrial exposure, hypertension misdiagnosed as hypertensive kidney disease, disproportionate hyperuricemia/gout, lead-hyperuricemia association). No diagram, image or table — only red-highlighted keywords over the same sentences. Her own emphasis: five phrases are highlighted red on the slide — industrial setting, Hypertension, hypertensive kidney disease, gout is common, and hyperuricemia — plus Lead bolded in the last bullet. The text conversion keeps the words and drops the emphasis.click any line to explain it
A plain bullet-text slide titled 'Metabolic disorders and nephropathy' with five bullets, each already present verbatim in the rows above (hypercalcemia as most common cause, its chronic causes, transient hypercalcemia and distal tubular injury, polyuria/concentrating defect, nephrocalcinosis/stones on imaging). No diagram, image or table — only red-highlighted keywords over the same sentences. Her own emphasis: five phrases are highlighted red on the slide — Hypercalcemia (bullet 1), hypercalcemia (bullet 3), distal tubular structures, nephrocalcinosis, and renal stone formation. The text conversion keeps the words and drops the emphasis.click any line to explain it

A plain abdominal X-ray (KUB) under the title 'Nephrocalcinosis'. Both kidneys show dense, clustered calcific densities within the renal outlines, more extensive on the right; two round radiopaque ring markers sit near the midline over the pelvis. Side markers 'R' and 'L' orient the film. No other labels or captions.
The actual radiographic pattern of bilateral nephrocalcinosis — clustered renal calcifications on plain film — which no text line in this lecture describes; the surrounding text (the row above, slide 40) only states that imaging 'may reveal nephrocalcinosis' without showing what that looks like.
A closing title card: white 'Thank you' text on a solid blue background, with the school logo in the corner. No data, labels or findings. None — decorative closing slide.