Etiologies of Hematuria

Extrarenal (far more common)

  • Nephrolithiasis
  • Neoplasm: transitional cell, prostate
  • Infxn: cystitis, urethritis, prostatitis
  • Foley trauma
  • BPH
  • Schistosoma haematobium

Intrarenal

  • Nephrolithiasis or crystalluria
  • Neoplasm
  • Trauma/exercise
  • Vascular: renal infarcts, renal v. thromb., sickle cell
  • Glomerular: IgA, thin BM, others
  • PKD (NEJM 2008;359:1477)

Wide, overlapping ages for various etiologies, but general guide for common causes:

<20 y: GN, UTI, congenital; 20–60 y: UTI, nephrolithiasis, cancer

60 y ♂: prostatitis, cancer, UTI; >60 y ♀: UTI, cancer