<unk><unk><unk>  should be differentiate 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, hemeturia, hypertension, hemoptysis, oliguria, peri-orbital edema, hyperlipidemia, type of antibodies, light and electron microscopic features.
Focal segmental glomerulosclerosis differential diagnosis
Rapidly progressive glomerulonephritis differential diagnosis
IgA nephropathy differential diagnosis
Renal artery stenosis differential diagnosis
Medullary sponge kidney differential diagnosis
Papillorenal syndrome differential diagnosis
Microscopic polyangiitis differential diagnosis
Renal papillary necrosis other diagnostic studies