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Overview of Glomerular Disorders
Diagnosis
Overview of Nephritic Syndrome
Acute glomerulonephritis
Chronic glomerulonephritis
Alport Syndrome
Symptoms and Signs
Diagnosis
Treatment
Treatment reference
Key Points
Immunoglobulin A Nephropathy
Symptoms and Signs
Diagnosis
Treatment
Angiotensin inhibition in IgA nephropathy
Sodium-glucose cotransporter 2 inhibitors
Corticosteroids and immunosuppressants in IgA nephropathy
Other treatments
Treatment references
Prognosis
Key Points
Postinfectious Glomerulonephritis (PIGN)
Etiology
Symptoms and Signs
Diagnosis
Treatment
Prognosis
Key Points
Rapidly Progressive Glomerulonephritis (RPGN)
Antiglomerular basement membrane antibody disease
Immune complex RPGN
Pauci-immune RPGN
Double-antibody disease
Idiopathic RPGN
Symptoms and Signs
Diagnosis
Treatment
Treatment references
Prognosis
Key Points
Thin Basement Membrane Disease
Symptoms and Signs
Diagnosis
Treatment
Overview of Nephrotic Syndrome
Etiology
Pathophysiology
Complications of nephrotic syndrome
Symptoms and Signs
Diagnosis
Urine testing
Adjunctive testing in nephrotic syndrome
Testing for secondary causes of nephrotic syndrome
Treatment
Treatment of disorder causing nephrotic syndrome
Proteinuria treatment
Edema treatment
Dyslipidemia treatment
Hypercoagulability treatment
Management of infection risk
Nephrectomy for nephrotic syndrome
Prognosis
Key Points
Congenital Nephrotic Syndromes
Diffuse mesangial sclerosis
Finnish-type nephrotic syndrome
Other congenital nephrotic syndromes
Diabetic Nephropathy
Pathophysiology
Symptoms and Signs
Diagnosis
Urinary protein
Screening
Treatment
Blood glucose control
Blood pressure control
Dyslipidemia
Other treatments
Kidney transplantation
Treatment references
Prognosis
Key Points
More Information
Focal Segmental Glomerulosclerosis
Symptoms and Signs
Diagnosis
Treatment
Immunosuppressive therapy
Prognosis
Key Points
HIV-Associated Nephropathy
Diagnosis
Treatment
Membranous Nephropathy
Etiology
Symptoms and Signs
Diagnosis
Diagnosis of cause
Diagnosis reference
Treatment
Immunosuppressive therapy
Treatment references
Prognosis
Key Points
Minimal Change Disease
Symptoms and Signs
Diagnosis
Treatment
Corticosteroids
Other immunosuppressive therapies
Treatment references
Prognosis
Prognosis reference
Key Points
Fibrillary and Immunotactoid Glomerulopathies
Diagnosis
Treatment
Prognosis
Lupus Nephritis
Pathophysiology
Antiphospholipid syndrome nephropathy
Symptoms and Signs
Diagnosis
Treatment
Immunosuppression
Other treatments
Treatment references
Prognosis
Key Points
Membranoproliferative Glomerulonephritis
Immunoglobulin/immune complex–mediated MPGN
Complement-mediated MPGN
Membranoproliferative pattern MPGN without immunoglobulin or complement deposition
Symptoms and Signs
Diagnosis
Treatment
Prognosis
More Information
Key Points