Is Kidney Transplant Helpful for Patients with IgA Nephropathy

Kidney transplant is helpful for patients with kidney disease. But, is kidney transplant helpful for patients with IgA Nephropathy.

IgA nephropathy is a kind of kidney disease pertains to glomerulonephritis, which can easily lead to ESRD, then patients have to receive kidney transplantation.
However, it is common to see that the IgA nephropathy recurrence in the patient after kidney transplantation. IgA nephropathy is not a kidney problem, but a immune system problem, to put it simply, it is a disease resulting from gene. So that even after kidney transplant, IgA nephropathy may come back again.

According to the statistics, after kidney transplantation, the recurrence rate of IgA nephropathy is 13%~50%, clinical manifestations is the same as original symptoms, includes hematuresis, proteinuria and progressive renal function decline. In the beginning phase, the course of disease is benign, but long-term follow-up data show that there are 1.3%~16% of patients’ donor kidney have lost efficacy due to IgA nephropathy recurrence. Recently, a large-sample study shows that in ten years after kidney transplantation, the rate of donor kidney lost efficacy due to IgA nephropathy is about 9.7%.

At present, there is no effective prevention and treatment measures for the recurrence of IgA nephropathy. Some people pin their hope on currently available immunosuppressive drugs, but there were no signs of the drugs can prevent IgA nephropathy recurrence.

Thus it can be seen that kidney transplantation is not a foolproof method to treat IgA nephropathy, in this case, what should patients do to deal with IgA nephropathy? The specialist recommend the combine therapy of Chinese medicine and western medicine, which can repair the diseased gene and cells, help patients get rid of illness, return to society.


The natural treatments in Shijiazhuang Kidney Disease Hospital can do great favor for patents with IgA Nephroapthy. It takes effects to repair injured kidney cells.

If you want to know more details about the natural treatment, you can send email to chinesemedicinekidney@hotmail.com.