| Clinical Manifestations of Glomerular Disease |
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The list above represents a number of clinical presentations for glomerular diseases. The categories include those diseases that cause primarily proteinuric conditions, either asymptomatic proteinuria or nephrotic syndrome; and those that cause either asymptomatic hematuria or nephritic syndrome with hematuria, proteinuria, renal insufficiency and/or hypertension. Nephritis can manifest as an acute, sometimes self-limited process, as a more chronic process with indolent progression of disease, or as a rapidly progressive process, which manifests often times structurally with substantial crescent formation. Any of the glomerular diseases that progress to severe chronic injury can result in end stage renal disease.