Classification or Glomerular Diseases



The classification of glomerulopathies -is very confusing, because groupings can be made ac­cording to the histological pattern of injury, the etiology of injury, or the mode of clinical pres­entation. In addition, the nomenclature includes a bewildering mixture of clinical, etiological, and pathological descriptive terms with many syno­nyms for the same disorder. This section will first divide glomerular diseases by their chief pattern of clinical presentation (nephrosis, nephritis, or mixed) and then order the individual entities by the dominant renal histopathological pattern.