The clinical manifestations of IgA Nephropathy are the recurrence of gross
hematuria and proteinuria. The reason why patients present this phenomenon is
that the immune complex deposited in the renal glomerular basement membrane,
which cause glomerular ischemia and hypoxia and increasing the permeability of
basement membrane barrier, then lead to the leakage of red bloods from the
damaged basement membrane. Nowadays, following with the development of society,
more and more young people are suffering IgA Nephropathy, so they begin to worry
about these questions like ‘Can IgA Nephropathy patient get married? Can IgA
Nephropathy patient get pregnant?’ We will explain in the following
articles.
‘Can IgA Nephropathy patients get married?’ The answer is yes, but we should
treat the disease seriously. Doctors have suggested that IgA Nephropathy
patients should wait after their condition become stable, they can get married
and have baby. Women can get pregnant after 2-3 years when the indicators of
various urine tests become negative, but in the period of pregnancy, the patient
need to do the regular check, follow up the doctors’ instructions.
IgA Nephropathy male patients need to pay attention to physical strength, not
get tried excessively, and have a degree of sex. If IgA Nephropathy female
patients are in an unstable disease condition, it is not easy for them to be
pregnant. On the one hand, abortion is bad for fetus, on the other hand,
abortion is bad for mother’s body, even aggravate the development of illness
condition rapidly. So patients should treat these things seriously. If patients
pay no heed to this things, the illness condition will relapse even become more
and more serious.
IgA Nephropathy female patients have the chance of conception if their
illness conditions are stable, but for those patients who have incontrollable
high blood pressure, the glomerular filtration rate is lower than 70ml/min, or
have lesions of renal artery and renal interstitial when they are puncturing,
these things will increase the risk of occurring abnormal renal function.
The risk includes mothers’ high blood pressure and aggravating renal
function, which lead to abortion, premature birth and intrauterine fetus grow
slowly. The evidence of this passage comes from a Japanese study, from
1970—1988, the Japanese scholars have observed 118 IgA Nephropathy female
patients with pregnancy for 168 times, they have found that 9 cases of IgA
Nephropathy female patients abortion, and most women can delivery normally; but
the IgA female patients with high blood pressure and kidney’s function are lower
than 70ml/min, the fetal mortality is higher several to dozen times than others.
So, the study showed that for most patients, pregnancy is not a difficult task,
unless the patient who has incontrollable high blood pressure, the glomerular
filtration rate is lower than 70ml/min.
But the study has passed for nearly 20 years. In the 20 years, the medicine
has more recognization for the IgA Nephropathy, especially after 1999,the
research about using hormone and cyclophosphamide to treat IgA Nephropathy has
developed by leaps and bounds, also get good clinical result, the Chinese
medicine have the protective function for kidney, and more and more IgA
Nephropathy patients have optimistic attitude for the clinical result. The IgA
female patients have more and more chances to get pregnant. For more
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