A 64 year old patient with a history of HIV and AIDS present…

A 64 year old patient with a history of HIV and AIDS presents with mental status changes and shortness of breath. A chest-ray reveals lymph node enlargement in multiple lymph node chains, but the patient denies any pain from lymph nodes. The labs reveal an elevation in the patient’s ALT and AST liver enzyme labs. Based on the patient’s signs, symptoms, and history, the oncologist suspects this type of disseminated blood cancer seen in patients with immunodeficiency disorders:

In reviewing for the exam the student remembers that the dep…

In reviewing for the exam the student remembers that the deposition of immune complexes in the glomerulus, with increased permeability of the glomerular basement membrane with subsequent diagnostic findings of protein and hematuria, is the basic pathophysiology behind which disease?