“…Kidney biopsy specimens may have provided useful diagnostic information, but the owner declined renal biopsy specimens because of the risk of complications of percutaneous renal biopsy in small dogs, and postmortem samples were not made available 21 . HH associated with functional or structural damage to the JGA has been reported in humans with diseases such as lupus nephritis, 22 amyloidosis, 23 monoclonal gammopathy, 24 and acute glomerulonephritis 20,25 . Reports of treatment of HH with concurrent proteinuria showed improvement or resolution with therapy targeted at the primary etiology.…”