The Symptoms of IgA Nephropathy

IgA Nephropathy is a special kind of glomerular disease characterized with the IgA dispositions in mesangial areas, which is commonly seen among pupils and youth. In recent years, the onset of IgA Nephropathy has been showing a trend of escalation, but there are still some patients knowing little about this disease. This article will introduce the symptoms of IgA Nephropathy to help the patients and their families learn more about this disease.
The common symptoms of IgA Nephropathy can be summarized as six kinds:
I Gross Hematuria
Nearly 30%~50% patients with IgA nephropathy have this symptom. It usually follows with the inducement within several hours to 24 hours. The inducements can be pharyngitis, tonsillitis, protective vaccination, pneumonia, etc. The urine of patients with IgA nephropathy presents brown or looks like the water where the meat is washed, but has no traces of blood or blood clots. Hematuria can be presented only once to some patients, and it may also recurrent attacks. However, the disappearance of hematuria does not mean the recovery of disease.
II. Abnormal Urinalysis Test
In clinic, some patients IgA nephropathy may present with hematuria or proteinuria. And these symptoms can be easily tested when the patients are having physical examination or other tests.
III. Nephrotic Syndrome
Nephrotic Syndrome usually happens to patients with severe illness condition, but it has been proved that this kind of patients with IgA nephropathy, if their disease can be stably controlled, usually have a good prognosis.
IV. Acute Renal Failure
The incidence rate of this symptom usually rises with the increase of patients’ ages. And if the patients don’t receive effective treatment to control the development of Acute Renal Failure, it may transmit to Chronic Renal Failure, which is a serious stage of nephropathy.
V. Chronic Renal Failure
Chronic Renal Failure is a serious stage of various nephropathy, in this stage, the renal function of patients have been damaged severely, thus, it will increase the difficulties of treatment and arouses undesirable prognosis.
VI. High Blood Pressure
It is another symptom which has influence on the prognosis of patients with IgA Nephropathy. Moreover, the incidence of this symptom has risen rapidly in recent years. As to some patients with IgA Nephropathy, hypertension could be the initial symptom, or presents during the course of disease.

Patients with IgA Nephropathy needn’t have all these symptoms above, it depends on their own illness conditions. In the end, it is deserved to be mentioned that, as to some patients with IgA Nephropathy who haven’t attached much attention to the symptoms and even put them aside, the disease may continue to deteriorate, and if let it develops to Uremia, the disease will never reserve at all.