Major Causes of Chronic Kidney Disease
Cause | Examples |
|---|---|
Chronic tubulointerstitial nephropathies | |
Glomerulopathies (primary) | Focal segmental glomerulosclerosis Idiopathic crescentic glomerulonephritis |
Glomerulopathies associated with systemic disease | Antiglomerular basement membrane (GBM) antibody disease (also known as Goodpasture syndrome) Granulomatosis with polyangiitis (formerly known as Wegener's granulomatosis) Mixed cryoglobulinemia |
Hereditary nephropathies | Autosomal dominant interstitial kidney disease (medullary cystic kidney disease) Hereditary nephritis (Alport syndrome) |
Hypertension | |
Retroperitoneal fibrosis Ureteral obstruction (congenital, calculi, cancer) | |
Renal macrovascular disease (vasculopathy of renal arteries and veins) | Renal artery stenosis caused by atherosclerosis or fibromuscular dysplasia |