A comprehensive clinical examination is the basis for selecting further diagnostic steps:
- General physical examination – including blood pressure, pulse, body weight, height; further:
- Inspection (viewing).
- Skin and mucous membranes [leading symptoms: generalized edema (water retention occurring throughout the body); morning swelling of eyelids, face, lower legs]
- Auscultation (listening) of the heart.
- Auscultation of the lungs
- Palpation (palpation) of the abdomen (abdomen) (tenderness?, knocking pain?, coughing pain?, defensive tension?, hernial orifices?, kidney bearing knocking pain?)
- Inspection (viewing).
- Urological/nephrological examination [due topossible causes:
- Other forms of glomerulonephritis
- Reflux nephropathy (kidney damage caused by reflux of urine from the bladder into the kidney)
- After nephrectomy (removal of a kidney).
- After kidney transplantation]
[due topossible sequelae: renal insufficiency (kidney weakness/kidney failure)]
- Health check
Square brackets [ ] indicate possible pathological (pathological) physical findings.