PERSISTENT AND ANEMIZING GROSS HEMATURIA SOLVED WITH ENALAPRIL

Hematuria is the presence of an excessive number of red blood cells in the urine (at least three or more erythrocytes in a high-power field in centrifuged urine). It is categorized as microscopic when it is visible only with the aid of a microscope and macroscopic when the urine is tea-colored, pink or even red.Hematuria can result from injury to the kidney or injury to another site in the urinary tract, and renal hematuria can be caused by glomerular or non-glomerular disease.Some clinical and biochemical findings contribute to understand the origin of this problem: the presence of hematuria with clots suggests an urological cause, while the presence of red blood cell casts and/or dysmorphic red blood cells in a urine sample supports a glomerular etiology.In the present report we presented a clinical case of a patient suffering from persistent and anemizing gross hematuria secondary to a mesangial proliferative glomerulonephritis associated with thick glomerular basement membranes which was solved using enalapril.