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Get Some of the Facts About Kidney Disease
Building your knowledge can help you and your healthcare team work together. The following information may help.
Autoimmune Disease
When functioning normally, your immune system protects you against infection and disease.
An autoimmune disease causes your immune system to mistakenly attack and damage your body instead.
Autoimmune Kidney Disease
Autoimmune kidney diseases are especially rare.
When you have an autoimmune kidney disease, your immune system attacks and damages your kidneys.
When this happens, your kidneys struggle to remove waste and toxins from your body.
To learn how this process occurs in IgAN and C3G,
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C3G, complement 3 glomerulopathy; IgAN, immunoglobulin A nephropathy.