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).
- Auscultation (listening) of the heart [due topossible cause: endocarditis (meningitis)]
- Auscultation of the lungs
- Palpation of the abdomen (belly), etc., with an attempt to palpate the liver (tenderness?, knocking pain?, coughing pain?, defensive tension?, hernial ports?, renal bearing knocking pain?)
- Palpation (palpation) of the renal region [flank pain].
- Urological/nephrological examination[due todifferential diagnosis: other forms of glomerulonephritis][due topossible sequelae: renal insufficiency (renal weakness/renal failure)]
- Health check
Square brackets [ ] indicate possible pathological (pathological) physical findings.
