Diabetic nephropathy should be differentiated from other causes of glomerular disease such as nephritic syndrome, nephrotic syndrome, Fabry's disease, poststreptococcal glomerulonephritis, lupus nephritis, antiglomerular basement membrane disease (goodpasture's syndrome), Cryoglobulinemia, Henoch-Schönlein purpura, amyloidosis, pulmonary-renal syndromes (vasculitis), thin basement membrane disease, Alport's Syndrome, anti-GBM Disease, hypertensive nephrosclerosis, and subacute bacterial endocarditis. The various types of glomerular diseases may be differentiated from each other based on associations, presence of pitting edema, hematuria, hypertension, hemoptysis, oliguria, peri-orbital edema, hyperlipidemia, type of antibodies, light and electron microscopic features.
Differentiating Diabetic nephropathy from other diseases
Differentiating lupus nephritis from other diseases
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Differentiating Diabetes mellitus type 2 from other diseases
Differentiating Diabetes insipidus from other diseases
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Differentiating Diabetes mellitus type 1 from other diseases