Difference b/w Nephritic & Nephrotic syndrome - Dr. Najeeb's lecture summary

Difference between Nephritic syndrome and Nephrotic syndrome is difficult to understand. These notes will help you solve your many queries about these syndrome. Following are the main questions that can be answered through these notes:

1) How the complications of proteinuria develope including hypoproteinemia , lipiduria , hyperlipidemia?

2) What is nephrotic and sub-nephrotic range proteinura?

3) Other associations of Nephrotic syndrome.

4) How does red cell cast form in nephritic syndrome?

5) How do oliguria , azotemia , hypertension develop in nephritic syndrome?

6) Why is proteinuria less in nephritic syndrome than nephrotic syndrome?

Source of notes: Dr. Najeeb's lecture