What are the implications iga nephropathy prognosis

For most patients with IgA nephropathy, factors affected their lives there are many, will introduce below, hoping to help you if you want to know more, you can consult our online doctor, or a message to chinakidneyhospital@gmail.com we will get back to you as soon as possible.
1. A few patients (about 4%) have minor lesions that can be relieved spontaneously. Thus all of the abnormal clinical symptoms will disappear,be hidden and delay for decades. In this case,there are no renal damage and obvious effects on patients’ health. But the renal biopsy will also show the pathologic change of IgA Nephropathy. This explains that the pathology of IgA Nephropathy will not disappear.
2. Most of patients will suffer from microscopic hematuria and proteinuria for several years. And then RTI (respiratory tract infection ) will aggravate patients’ disease condition. In this case, protein will also be increased or delay.
3. Nephrotic Syndrome will also appear. For these patients,about 10% of them have a bad prognosis.
4. Most of IgA Nephropathy patients will suffer from high blood pressure owing to the impaired kidneys and other causes. According to statistics,about 20-50% of patients have hypertension. All of these IgA Nephropathy patients with high blood pressure,especially the unmanageable blood pressure,the kidney disease condition will develop rapidly. So it is necessary for patients to take the timely and effective treatments to control and relieve the hypertension.
5. Chronic Renal Failure
About 10-40% of IgA Nephropathy patients have a slow development. And then about after 10-20 years,it may develop Kidney Failure. At present,IgA Nephropathy have become one of the important causes that will lead to ESRD (End Stage Renal Disease).

Besides,some other situation will also remind the bad prognosis of IgA Nephropathy:the disease attacks in the older; high blood pressure;massive proteinuria;high creatinine.