| 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) |