Primary glomerular diseases
- IgA nephropathy
- Focal segmental glomerulosclerosis
- Membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis
- Membranous nephropathy
Secondary glomerular diseases
- Diabetic nephropathy (very common)
- Hypertensive nephropathy
- Amyloidosis
- Postinfectious glomerulonephritis
- HIV-associated nephropathy
- Collagen vascular diseases, eg, systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE)
- Sickle cell nephropathy
- Drug hypersensitivity
- Heavy metals
- Analgesic nephropathy
- Vesicoureteral reflux
- Idiopathic
- Prostatic disease
- Urinary calculi
- Retroperitoneal fibrosis or tumor
- Hypertensive nephrosclerosis (very common)
- Renal artery stenosis including fibromuscular dysplasia
- Polycystic kidney disease
- Medullary cystic kidney disease
- Alport’s syndrome