Glomerulonephritis differential diagnosis

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Glomerulonephritis	Sub-entity	Causes and associations	History and symtoms	Nephrotic features	Nephritic features	ANCA	Anti-glomerular basement membrane antibody (Anti-GBM antibody)	Immune complex formation	Light microscope	Electron microscope	Immunoflourescence pattern
Non-proliferative	Minimal change disease	Idiopathic Protein tyrosine phosphatase receptor type O (glomerular epithelial protein 1- GLEPP1)	Young children Recent infection and immunization Atopy Hodgkin lymphoma Thrombosis (due to urinary loss of antithrombin-III) Pitting edema Hyperlipidemia and hyper colesterolemia	+	-	-			Normal	Fusion of podocytes	-
	Focal segmental glomerulosclerosis	Idiopathic HIV Heroine use Sickle cell disease Interferon Severe obesity Mixed cryoglobunemia (Hepatitis C)	Adults Pitting edema Hyperlipidemia and hyper colesterolemia	+
	Membranous glomerulonephritis	Idiopathic Hepatitis B and C Solid tumors Systemic lupus erythmatosus Drugs (NSAIDS, penclliamine, gold, captopril)		+
Proliferative	IgA nephropathy	Idiopathic Viral infections	Young children History of mucosal infections (e.g. gastroenteritis) and upper respiratory tract infection					+
	Rapidly progressive glomerulonephritis	Goodpasture syndrome
		Post infectious glomerulonephritis
		Granulomatosis with polyangitis (Wegner's granulomatosis)
		Churg Strauss syndrome
		Microscopic polyngitis
	Membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis	Idiopathic Hepatitis B and C (Type 1) C3 nepritic factor (Type2)