Blood Urine - IgA Nephropathy

Repeated blood urine is the typical clinical manifestation of IgA Nephropathy, a primary glomerular disease. According to clinical statistics, about 30% to 40% of IgA Nephropathy patients report they are suffering repeated gross hematuria, one of two types of blood urine. And 20% to 30% of patients have microscopic hematuria which need to be diagnosed with microscope.

Blood urine is diagnosed when red blood cell count in urine is no less than 3. In case of IgA Nephropathy, red blood cells in urine appear because of damaged glomerular filtration membrane. Without timely control, glomerular filtration function becomes poorer and poorer, as a consequence of this, more and more red blood cells leak out. Thereby, blood urine helps to reflect the severity of IgA Nephropathy. Also, blood urine companied by protein urine always indicates poor prognosis.

Microscopic hematuria can not be found with naked eyes, so it is easy to be ignored. To have a thorough knowledge about illness condition, a overall test system is very necessary and helpful.

So far, oral medicine is the most commonly used treatment for blood urine in IgA Nephropathy. These medicines show treatment effects within a short term, but they fail to repair damaged glomerular filtration membrane. It is a temporary method and once patients stop taking or reduce dose, blood urine appears again. Therefore, to avoid the deterioration of blood urine, a treatment with ability of repairing damaged glomerular filtration membrane is necessary.