Membranous Nephropathy

Many diseases can affect your kidney function by attacking and damaging the glomeruli, the tiny filtering units inside your kidney where blood is cleaned. Glomerular diseases include many conditions with many different genetic and environmental causes. Membranous nephropathy (MN) is a type of glomerular disease and is an autoimmune disease. An autoimmune disease is caused when your body’s defense system turns against you and harms your body when it should be protecting you. Your defense system is known as your immune system which is “turned on” by glomerular disease. MN is one of the most common causes of nephrotic syndrome. When your immune system attacks the glomeruli in membranous nephropathy, it causes changes to the filters that lead you to lose large amount of protein into the urine. If this continues at high levels, it can eventually lead to kidney failure.

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