Histometrical glomerular studies in minimal proliferative intercapillary glomerulonephritis (minimal changes without...

Histometrical glomerular studies were carried out in minimal proliferative intercapillary glomerulonephritis (minimal changes without nephrotic syndrome) with different clinical symptomatology. Results of morphometric examinations of renal corpuscles of 58 cases of minimal proliferative ntercapillary glomerulonephritis (MPI-GN) without nephrotic syndrome were compared with those of normal and mesangiosproliferative glomerulonephritis cases and showed that MPI-GN without nephrotic syndrome is accompanied by proliferation of the glomerular cells. The cell density in the glomeruli is increased by 47% compared with the norm. Different clinical symptoms (proteinuria, haematuria, haematuria and proteinuria) have no different morphometrical correlate. A differentiation of this disease from mesangio-proliferative glomerulonephritis seems justified.