General Nephritis Introduction

Some patients who are diagnosed with renal glomerular nephritis ask whether it is genetic. Actually, some are genetic and some are not.
So far, experts in kidney disease field have not got a clear pathological mechanism about renal glomerular nephritis. Some hold the idea that it is caused by genetic deficiency of renal glomerular basilar membrane. The most obvious characteristic of it is that it has family history. In a family, several members have hematuria, which is more common in young men.
When genetic renal glomerular nephritis takes place in the early stage, the symptoms are not obvious. For children, in the urinalysis examinations, there appears protein in urine and red blood cells in urine, which worsens after strenuous exercise or infection. Generally, with children growing, there will be more and more protein in urine. What’s worse, some can have severe protein in urine. They seldom have increased blood pressure and usually in the end stage, blood pressure begins to increase. Renal glomerular nephritis usually develops slowly, and male patients usually have worse condition, some of whom usually die from renal failure.