Common Symptoms of Lupus Nephropathy

Lupus Nephropathy is a kind of secondary kidney disease which is caused by long time lupus, and the kidney damage mainly takes place in renal glomeruli. Lupus is a kind of auto immune disease, which is caused by the deposition of immune complex in the kidney and the damage of which can spread to many organs in the body in the whole blood system. Lupus Nephropathy is usually seen in women, especially those with young age.
1.Patients with Lupus Nephropathy have red blood cells, white blood cells and protein in urine. With the disease developing, patients may develop into uremia at the end stage. proteinuria is almost existing with different degree edema, About 50% performance for nephrotic syndrome;Contiuning microscopic hematuria is common but there had been no reports of exist alone; 40% had hypertension. About 50% have kidney function decline, it can also result in acute renal failure. Always have renal tubular dysfunction.
2. Hypertention or high blood pressure can often appear when Lupus Nephropathy is severe.
3. Rash, especially butterfly rash on the face can also appear on patients with lupus nephritis.
4. Symptoms in gastrointestinal tract, which are such as nausea, abdominal pain, liver or spleen becoming bigger account for 30-40%.
5. Symptoms in blood system are such as anemia, which is the most common, white blood cells and thrombocytopenia.
6. Cardiovascular anomalies: lesions also involved the endocardial, myocardial and pericardium, and a few can have vasculitis and Renault's phenomenon.
7.Nervous system: the mild involvement is often seen, such as judgment, short-term memory loss, abnormal behavior, a headache. In addition to mental illness, relatively convulsions is rare.
8.Joint symptoms: joint muscle pain, usually involve all the joint of limbs, show the acute inflammatory process.
9.Others: fever, discomfort, weight loss, photosensitive, hair loss and lymph node enlargement, etc.
From the above, we can get the symptoms of Lupus Nephropathy. Realizing it is essential, we should also pay attention to how to treat it. On the basis of its pathological mechanism, experts researched out immunotherapy, which can control and treat Lupus Nephropathy.