National Kidney Foundation. High blood pressure and chronic kidney disease. MedlinePlus. Glomerulus and nephron. Autoimmune Association. What is IgA nephropathy?. American Kidney Fund. Lupus ...

Kidney stones are hard objects made from chemicals in your pee. They may be as tiny as a grain of salt or as big as a corn kernel. The stones can be brown or yellow, smooth or rough. They're a ...

A GFR score under 60 may mean kidney disease. A creatinine clearance ... The kidneys push the liquid part of blood through tiny filters called glomeruli, which are tiny bundles of blood vessels ...

A specialized low-salt fasting-mimicking diet revives kidney function in preclinical animal models and patients with chronic ...

Without proper treatment, IgAN can lead to kidney failure ... damaging the blood vessels (known as glomeruli) that help ...

The hepatitis E virus affects the liver. But infected liver cells secrete a viral protein that reacts with antibodies in the blood and may form complexes that can damage the filter structure of the ...

Omega-3 fats may help reduce fat levels (triglycerides) in the blood and may also lower blood pressure, according to the National Kidney Foundation. If you have CKD, you may need to keep an eye ...

3 In C3G, overactivation of the alternative complement pathway – part of the immune system – causes deposits of C3 protein to build up in kidney glomeruli, which are a network of blood vessels ...