Glomerular causes
Familial causes
Fabry’s disease
Hereditary nephritis (Alport’s syndrome)
Nail-patella syndrome
Thin basement-membrane disease
Primary glomerulonephritis
Focal segmental glomerulonephritis
Goodpasture’s disease
Henoch-Schönlein purpura
IgA nephropathy (Berger’s disease)
Mesangioproliferative glomerulonephritis
Postinfectious glomerulonephritis
Rapidly progressive glomerulonephritis
Secondary glomerulonephritis
Hemolytic-uremic syndrome
Systemic lupus nephritis
Thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura
Vasculitis
Renal causes
Arteriovenous malformation
Hypercalciuria
Hyperuricosuria
Loin pain-hematuria syndrome
Malignant hypertension
Medullary sponge kidney
Metabolic causes
Papillary necrosis
Polycystic kidney disease
Renal artery embolism
Renal vein thrombosis
Sickle cell disease or trait
Tubulointerstitial causes
Vascular cause
Urologic causes
Benign prostatic hyperplasia
Cancer (kidney, ureteral, bladder, prostate, and urethral)
Cystitis/pyelonephritis
Nephrolithiasis
Prostatitis
Schistosoma haematobium infection
Tuberculosis
Other causes
Drugs (e.g., NSAIDs, heparin, warfarin [Coumadin], cyclophosphamide [Cytoxan])
Trauma (e.g., contact sports, running, Foley catheter)