Idiopathic Nodular Glomerulosclerosis: A Case Report

Abstract

Nodular glomerulosclerosis, although once identified as a histopathological diagnosis identical with diabetes mellitus (DM), can be seen in many diseases like membranoproliferative glomerulonephritis, amyloidosis, fibrillary and immunotactoid glomerulopathy. Idiopathic nodular glomerulosclerosis (ING) can be diagnosed by exclusion of these diseases. Medical history, serology and immunohistochemical and electron microscopical examination of renal biopsy are helpful also. ING has been related with smoking and hypertension in recent studies. Herein, we present a case of ING who is smoker and had hypertension for seven years.