How to Know You Are a Membranous Nephropathy Suffer

Generally speaking, the prognosis of Membranous Nephropathy is not good and many patients develop End Stage Renal Failure. Therefore, you should know firstly know if you a Membranous Nephropathy and then receive relative treatment in time so as to stop the further progression of the disease. It is very necessary for you to have a comprehensive understanding of Membranous Nephropathy.

Membranous Nephropathy can be found at any age, but about 80~90% of the patients are above 30 years old. Its incidence is especially high among the male above 50~60 years old. The onset of the disease is very latent and the patients usually do not have prehistory of the upper respiratory tract infection. About 70~80% of the patients with Membranous Nephropathy have Nephrotic Syndrome and 30~50% of children is complicated with microscopic hematuria and rarely in the adults. About 13~55% of the patients have high blood pressure when they have first diagnosis.

Clinically, in most cases of Membranous Nephropathy, the patients have a large amount of proteinuria. Most of the children’ proteinuria can recover by itself within five years. Among the adult patients, about 25% of them can remit from proteinuria by themselves.

Generally speaking, Membranous Nephropathy progresses very slowly, but about 10% of the patients have had renal insufficiency when they go for treatment for the first time. Proteinuria is the main cause in aggravating renal injury. Moreover, high blood pressure, edema and so on also are dangerous factors in aggravating Renal Failure.

For some patients with Membranous Nephropathy, their renal function may decline at a fast speed. Once the renal function aggravates sharply, it often imply the patients may be also complicated with other Kidney Diseases. Another reason for drastic decline in renal function is acute bilateral venous thrombosis. In this case, the patients may have a large amount of proteinuria, declined effective blood volume. Clinically, the patients often have gross hematuria, back pain and other symptoms besides the aggravation of renal function. Moreover, medicine is also a common inducement of renal function aggravation like diuretic, antibiotics and so on.


The above has introduced some common knowledge of Membranous Nephropathy. If you have one or several symptoms mentioned above, you had better go for further inspection to find if you have renal injury in the first time.