Complications of Acute Glomerularnephritis

Acute Nephritis is Acute Glomerularnephritis for short. If the patients can not get proper treatments in its early time, it will cause a series of serious complications. The common complications are as follows:

1. Heart Failure

Heart Failure is common among children and elders with Acute Glomerularnephritis. The patients usually have pulmonary congestion, swelling of lung, Left or Right Heart Failure. The decline in Glomerular Filtration Rate (GFR) and endocrine disorders can cause retention of water and sodium, which can cause blood volume to increase. As a result, the patients will have the above complications. They mainly occur in the first to second week of the onset of Acute Glomerularnephritis.

2. Encephalopathy

It is common among children with Acute Glomerularnephritis with the incidence of 5%~10%. Usually the children have the following symptoms: intense headache, vomit, somnolence, obnubilation and even convulsions and coma. At present, the pathogenesis of encephalopathy is not clear yet, but it may be closely related to the encephaledema and cerebrovas-cular spasm caused by serious high blood pressure and retention of water and sodium. What’s worse, some patients even have bleeding in brain.

3. Acute Renal Failure

In the acute stage of Acute Glomerularnephritis, there is mass proliferation in mesangial cells, endothelial cells, blood capillary coagulation and even cresent in glomeruli. It can cause oliguria, anuria and acute renal failure. Generally speaking, Acute Renal Failure caused by Acute Glomerularnephritis has a better prognosis than those caused by other pathogenesis.


As Acute Glomerularnephritis may cause so many serious complications, it is very important for patients to receive effective treatment as early as possible. If you want to know more about the treatments of Acute Glomerularnephritis, you can consult us on line or email to kindey-treatment@hotmail.com.