Wallach's Interpretation of Diagnostic Tests: Pathways to Arriving at a Clinical Diagnosis (528 page)

   GN disorders can be grouped into nonproliferative and proliferative types.

   Non-proliferative GN disorders include

   Focal segmented glomerulosclerosis

   Membranous glomerulopathy

   Minimal change disease

   Proliferative GN disorders include

   IgA nephropathy

   Postinfectious GN

   Membranoproliferative GN

   Rapidly progressive GN

   GN can be a primary disorder due to causes intrinsic to the kidney or secondary to autoimmune disorders, infections, diabetes, or drug treatment.

   Conditions associated with GN can be also classified as antibody-mediated or cell-mediated, infectious or noninfectious, or hypocomplementemic or normocomplementemic.

Antibody Mediated

   For example, anti–glomerular basement membrane (GBM) disease (Goodpasture syndrome), following renal transplantation