Lihong Bu, M.D., Ph.D.

  1. Bu L, Valeri AM, Said SM, Zhu Y, Herrera Hernandez L, Gladish R, Prasad B, Sethi S, Leung N, Nasr SH. IgM Variant of Proliferative Glomerulonephritis With Monoclonal Immunoglobulin Deposits: A Case Series. Am J Kidney Dis. 2025 Jun; 85 (6):716-726.e1 Epub 2025 Mar 25
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  2. Nasr SH, Royal V, Best Rocha A, Buttner-Herold M, Roufosse C, Bridoux F, Ismail W, Bu L, Cornell LD, Dendooven A, Gupta RK, Hara S, Javaugue V, Kozakowski N, Kudose S, Mendez GP, Oliver K, Picken MM, Santoriello D, Sethi S, Shimizu A, Singh G, Stokes MB, Wang SX, Leung N, Markowitz GS, D'Agati VD. Renal Pathology Society/International Kidney and Monoclonal Gammopathy Research Group consensus on pathologic definitions and terminology of monoclonal gammopathy-associated kidney lesions. Kidney Int. 2025 Apr 23 [Epub ahead of print]
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  3. Kalantari K, Sullivan MM, Herrera Hernandez LP, Bu L, Cornell LD, Nasr SH, Fervenza FC, Montes D, Mangaonkar AA, Go RS, Kusne YN, Patnaik MM, Lasho TL, Olteanu H, Reichard KK, Warrington KJ, Koster MJ. Acute kidney injury, an underrecognized feature of VEXAS syndrome. Rheumatology (Oxford). 2025 Apr 1; 64 (4):2027-2033
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  4. Nasr SH, Dasari S, Valeri AM, Theis JD, Moyer A, Buglioni A, Stokes MB, Hasadsri L, Vrana JA, Said SM, Kudose S, Kambham N, Bissonnette ML, Bu L, Gupta R, Suvannasankha A, Martin S, Zeng X, Sothinathan R, Jadoon A, Kebede T, Manickaratnam S, Rosenstock JL, Markowitz GS, Sethi S, Leung N, McPhail ED. Clinicopathologic, Proteomic and Outcome Characteristics of Renal Apolipoprotein C-II Amyloidosis: A Case Series. Am J Kidney Dis. 2025 Mar; 85 (3):353-363.e1 Epub 2024 Nov 14
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  5. Ahmed NH, Bu L, Koster MJ. Renal-Limited IgG4-Related Disease Presenting as Hypodense Lesions Found During Surveillance Imaging in a Patient With High-Grade Urothelial Cell Carcinoma. J Rheumatol. 2025 Jan 1; 52 (1):105 Epub 2025 Jan 01
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  6. Nasr SH, Kudose S, Valeri AM, Kashkouli A, Said SM, Santoriello D, Markowitz GS, Bu L, Cornell LD, Samad A, Ahmed J, Sethi S, Leung N, D'Agati VD. Clinicopathologic Characteristics of Crystalglobulin-Induced Nephropathy: A Case Series. Am J Kidney Dis. 2024 Dec; 84 (6):708-718.e1 Epub 2024 June 21
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  7. Nasr SH, Valeri AM, Said SM, Sethi S, Nath KA, Lieske JC, Bu L. Clinicopathologic Characteristics, Etiologies, and Outcome of Secondary Oxalate Nephropathy. Mayo Clin Proc. 2024 Apr; 99 (4):593-606 Epub 2024 Feb 01
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  8. Klair N, Mahmood SB, El-Rifai R, Nast CC, Bu L, Bregman A. Fibronectin glomerulopathy in a kidney allograft biopsy. BMC Nephrol. 2023 Dec 5; 24 (1):359 Epub 2023 Dec 05
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  9. Chuang TM, Bu L, Opp DN, Potretzke TA, Huskins WC, Van Dorn CS, Tran CL, Dearani JA, Hanna C. A 7-Year-Old Boy with Fever and Dark Urine. NEJM Evid. 2023 Nov; 2 (11):EVIDmr2300191 Epub 2023 Oct 24
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  10. Kouri AM, Caza TN, Beck LH Jr, Misurac JM, Evans MD, Phillips CL, Eadon MT, Larsen CP, Andreoli SP, Bu L, Rheault MN, Khalid M. Clinical and Histopathologic Characteristics of Pediatric Patients With Primary Membranous Nephropathy. Kidney Int Rep. 2023 Nov; 8 (11):2368-2375 Epub 2023 Aug 28
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  11. Bu L, Said SM, Herrera Hernandez L, Taheri Z, Spry L, Rosenthal BS, Das A, Madden B, Larsen CP, Kim Y, Sethi S, Nasr SH. The Characteristics of Concurrent Anti-Glomerular Basement Membrane Nephritis and Membranous Nephropathy. Kidney Int Rep. 2023 Oct; 8 (10):2164-2167 Epub 2023 Aug 11
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  12. Kudose S, Cossey LN, Canetta PA, Sekulic M, Vanbeek CA, Huls FB, Gupta I, Bu L, Alexander MP, Cornell LD, Fidler ME, Markowitz GS, Larsen CP, D'Agati VD, Nasr SH, Santoriello D. Clinicopathologic Spectrum of Lysozyme-Associated Nephropathy. Kidney Int Rep. 2023 Aug; 8 (8):1585-1595 Epub 2023 May 15
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  13. Bu L, Javaugue V, Chauvet S, Napier J, Dasari S, Theis JD, Vrana JA, McPhail ED, Nasr SH. Light Chain-Only Immunotactoid Glomerulopathy: A Case Report. Am J Kidney Dis. 2023 May; 81 (5):611-615 Epub 2022 Oct 31
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  14. Ravipati P, Reule S, Bren A, Bu L, Vaughn BP, Nachman PH. Kidney Biopsy Findings and Clinical Outcomes of US Veterans with Inflammatory Bowel Disease. Glomerular Dis. 2023 Jan-Dec; 3 (1):233-240 Epub 2023 Sept 30
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  15. Ravipati P, Freese RL, Royal V, Bu L, Canetta P, Gipson D, Kallash M, Kiryluk K, Nast C, Reich HN, Rheault MN, Saha M, Nachman PH, CureGN Consortium. Clinicopathologic Significance of Predominant Lambda Light Chain Deposition in IgA Nephropathy. Kidney Int Rep. 2022 Nov; 7 (11):2462-2473 Epub 2022 Aug 17
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  16. Cheung R, Xu H, Jin X, Tian W, Pinney K, Bu L, Stone S, Woodward RN, Agrawal N, Dholakia S, Phan RT. Validation of a gene expression signature to measure immune quiescence in kidney transplant recipients in the CLIA setting. Biomark Med. 2022 Jun; 16 (8):647-661 Epub 2022 Apr 29
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  17. Zhou Y, Rothrock A, Murugan P, Li F, Bu L. Differential expression of preferentially expressed antigen in melanoma (PRAME) in testicular germ cell tumors - A comparative study with SOX17. Exp Mol Pathol. 2022 Jun; 126:104761 Epub 2022 Apr 04
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  18. Bu L, Gupta G, Pai A, Anand S, Stites E, Moinuddin I, Bowers V, Jain P, Axelrod DA, Weir MR, Wolf-Doty TK, Zeng J, Tian W, Qu K, Woodward R, Dholakia S, De Golovine A, Bromberg JS, Murad H, Alhamad T. Clinical outcomes from the Assessing Donor-derived cell-free DNA Monitoring Insights of kidney Allografts with Longitudinal surveillance (ADMIRAL) study. Kidney Int. 2021 Dec 22 [Epub ahead of print]
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  19. Csizmar CM, Sachs Z, Cayci Z, Bu L, Linden MA. Primary Cardiac Lymphoma: Three Case Reports and a Review of the Literature. Open J Blood Dis. 2021 Dec; 11 (4):120-132 Epub 2021 Dec 02
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  20. Su X, Kim Y, Riad S, Spong R, Bu L. Glomerular galactose-deficient IgA1 detected in donor-derived and recurrent IgA nephropathy. Transpl Int 2021 Nov; 34 (11):2418-2421 Epub 2021 Sept 08
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  21. Adam BA, Murakami N, Reid G, Du K, Jasim R, Boils CL, Bu L, Hill PD, Murray AG, Renaudin K, Roufosse C, Weins A, Wen K, Riella LV, Mengel M. Gene Expression Profiling in Kidney Transplants with Immune Checkpoint Inhibitor-Associated Adverse Events. Clin J Am Soc Nephrol. 2021 Sep; 16 (9):1376-1386 Epub 2021 July 09
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  22. Bu L, Mirocha J, Haas M. Immunoglobulin G/albumin staining in tubular protein reabsorption droplets in minimal change disease and focal segmental glomerulosclerosis. Nephrol Dial Transplant. 2021 May 27; 36 (6):1016-1022
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  23. Zhou Y, Murugan P, Li F, Bu L. Needle tract seeding in renal tumor biopsies: experience from a single institution. Diagn Pathol. 2021 May 16; 16 (1):43
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  24. Bu L, Ye B , Kouri AM , Kim Y . Diagnostic utility of Galactose deficient IgA1 immunostaining in the differentiation of lupus nephritis and IgA nephropathy Glomerular Dis. 2021; 1(1):34 - 39.
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  25. Savani M, Woerner K, Bu L, Birkenbach M, Skubitz KM. Pegylated liposomal doxorubicin-induced renal toxicity in retroperitoneal liposarcoma: a case report and literature review. Cancer Chemother Pharmacol. 2021 Feb; 87 (2):289-294 Epub 2021 Jan 03
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  26. Escher P, Bu L, Cayci Z, Yueh B, Li F. Laryngeal Squamous Cell Carcinoma with Osteosarcomatous Differentiation and Involvement of Thyroid Cartilage Mimicking Sarcoma Arising from Thyroid Cartilage. Head Neck Pathol. 2020 Sep; 14 (3):771-777 Epub 2019 Dec 23
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  27. Bu L, Zhu H, Racila E, Khaja S, Hamlar D, Li F. Xanthogranulomatous Sialadenitis, an Uncommon Reactive Change is Often Associated with Warthin's Tumor. Head Neck Pathol. 2020 Jun; 14 (2):525-532 Epub 2019 Aug 31
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  28. Chun J, Wang M, Wilkins MS, Knob AU, Benjamin A, Bu L, Pollak MR. Autosomal Dominant Tubulointerstitial Kidney Disease-Uromodulin Misclassified as Focal Segmental Glomerulosclerosis or Hereditary Glomerular Disease. Kidney Int Rep. 2020 Apr; 5 (4):519-529 Epub 2020 Jan 08
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  29. Zhao Y, Kim Y, Junghare M, Vakil V, Su X, Li F, Bu L. Galactose-Deficient IgA1 Deposits in Clear Cell Renal Cell Carcinoma-Related Henoch-Schonlein Purpura Nephritis. Case Rep Nephrol. 2020; 2020:8828336 Epub 2020 Aug 22
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  30. Toyama A, Siegel L, Nelson AC, Najmuddin M, Bu L, LaRue R, Henzler C, Caicedo-Granados E, Giubellino A, Li F. Analyses of molecular and histopathologic features and expression of PRAME by immunohistochemistry in mucosal melanomas. Mod Pathol. 2019 Dec; 32 (12):1727-1733 Epub 2019 Aug 02
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  31. Ferdjallah A, Gordon P, Kirankumar V, Dietz K, Bu L, Verghese P. Mixed epithelial and stromal tumor after pediatric kidney transplant. Pediatr Transplant. 2019 Dec; 23(8):e13575. Epub 2019 Sep 08.
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  32. Csizmar CM, Riad S, Bu L. Abrupt Onset of Proteinuria in a Fifty-Year-Old Woman with a Twenty Seven-Year-Old Renal Allograft Renal Pathology Society Educational Case Series. 2019.
  33. Bu L, Yang Q, McMahon L, Xiao GQ, Li F. Wnt suppressor and stem cell regulator TCF7L1 is a sensitive immunohistochemical marker to differentiate testicular seminoma from non-seminomatous germ cell tumor. Exp Mol Pathol. 2019 Oct; 110:104293 Epub 2019 Aug 02
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  34. Bu L, Chen J, Nelson AC, Katz A, Kashtan CE, Kim Y, Pierpont ME. Somatic Mosaicism in a Male Patient With X-linked Alport Syndrome. Kidney Int Rep. 2019 Jul; 4 (7):1031-1035 Epub 2019 Mar 14
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  35. Vakil V, Birkenbach M, Woerner L, Bu L. Tubulitis in a patient treated with nivolumab: Case report and literature review Journal Onco-Neph. 2018; 2:107 - 112.
  36. Verghese PS, Reed RC, Lihong B, Matas AJ, Kim Y. The clinical implications of the unique glomerular complement deposition pattern in transplant glomerulopathy. J Nephrol. 2018 Feb; 31 (1):157-164 Epub 2016 Nov 15
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  37. Bu L. Mild proteinuria in a kidney transplant Renal Pathology Society Case Series 2017. 2017.
  38. Bu L, Nast CN. 52 year old male with an elevated serum creatinine and mild proteinuria Renal Pathology Educational Case Series. 2015.
  39. Kim J, Bu L, Koduru PR, Wilson KS, Fuda FS, Kumar KR, Timmons CF, Slone TL, Luu HS. Novel r(2)(p25q31) cytogenetic abnormality in a pediatric patient with acute leukemia of ambiguous lineage. Pediatr Dev Pathol. 2015 Jan-Feb; 18 (1):76-9 Epub 2014 Dec 01
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  40. Edlow BL, Takahashi E, Wu O, Benner T, Dai G, Bu L, Grant PE, Greer DM, Greenberg SM, Kinney HC, Folkerth RD. Neuroanatomic connectivity of the human ascending arousal system critical to consciousness and its disorders. J Neuropathol Exp Neurol. 2012 Jun; 71 (6):531-46
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  41. Lund TD, Blake C, Bu L, Hamaker AN, Lephart ED. Equol an isoflavonoid: potential for improved prostate health, in vitro and in vivo evidence. Reprod Biol Endocrinol. 2011 Jan 13; 9:4
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  42. Li S, Jin Z, Koirala S, Bu L, Xu L, Hynes RO, Walsh CA, Corfas G, Piao X. GPR56 regulates pial basement membrane integrity and cortical lamination. J Neurosci. 2008 May 28; 28 (22):5817-26
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  43. Jin Z, Tietjen I, Bu L, Liu-Yesucevitz L, Gaur SK, Walsh CA, Piao X. Disease-associated mutations affect GPR56 protein trafficking and cell surface expression. Hum Mol Genet. 2007 Aug 15; 16 (16):1972-85 Epub 2007 June 18
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  44. Bu L, Lephart ED. AVPV neurons containing estrogen receptor-beta in adult male rats are influenced by soy isoflavones. BMC Neurosci. 2007 Feb 1; 8:13 Epub 2007 Feb 01
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  45. Bu L, Lephart ED. Regulatory behavior and skin temperature in mid-aged male rats on three different isoflavone-containing diets. J Med Food. 2006 Winter; 9 (4):567-71
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  46. Bu L, Setchell KD, Lephart ED. Influences of dietary soy isoflavones on metabolism but not nociception and stress hormone responses in ovariectomized female rats. Reprod Biol Endocrinol. 2005 Oct 26; 3:58
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  47. Bu L, Lephart ED. Soy isoflavones modulate the expression of BAD and neuron-specific beta III tubulin in male rat brain. Neurosci Lett. 2005 Sep 9; 385 (2):153-7
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  48. Bu LH, Lephart ED. Effects of dietary phytoestrogens on core body temperature during the estrous cycle and pregnancy. Brain Res Bull. 2005 Apr 15; 65 (3):219-23
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  49. Lephart ED, Porter JP, Lund TD, Bu L, Setchell KD, Ramoz G, Crowley WR. Dietary isoflavones alter regulatory behaviors, metabolic hormones and neuroendocrine function in Long-Evans male rats. Nutr Metab (Lond). 2004 Dec 23; 1 (1):16
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  50. Lephart ED, Rhees RW, Setchell KD, Bu LH, Lund TD. Estrogens and phytoestrogens: brain plasticity of sexually dimorphic brain volumes. J Steroid Biochem Mol Biol. 2003 Jun; 85 (2-5):299-309
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  51. Lephart ED, Galindo E, Bu LH. Stress (hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis) and pain response in male rats exposed lifelong to high vs. low phytoestrogen diets. Neurosci Lett. 2003 May 15; 342 (1-2):65-8
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  52. Lund TD, West TW, Tian LY, Bu LH, Simmons DL, Setchell KD, Adlercreutz H, Lephart ED. Visual spatial memory is enhanced in female rats (but inhibited in males) by dietary soy phytoestrogens. BMC Neurosci. 2001; 2:20 Epub 2001 Dec 17
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