Membranous nephropathy, also called membranous glomerulopathy, is a kidney disease that affects the filters, or glomeruli, of your kidneys. These filters usually help remove waste and fluids. But when ...

Forty-eight international experts on membranous nephropathy have co-authored a consensus report that calls for a new method of classifying diagnoses of the syndrome. They say the change would result ...

PHILADELPHIA -- Researchers may have found another autoantigen involved in idiopathic membranous nephropathy, they reported here. In a study of 154 patients who did not have antibodies to PLA2R1 -- ...

Several immunosuppressive treatments have demonstrated their efficacy in idiopathic membranous nephropathy, but spontaneous remission does develop in more than 30% of patients. The availability of a ...

The M-type phospholipase A 2 receptor (PLA 2 R) was recently identified as a candidate antigen in 70% of cases of idiopathic membranous nephropathy, a common form of the nephrotic syndrome. The nature ...

Idiopathic membranous nephropathy is an autoimmune disease. In approximately 70% of patients, it is associated with autoantibodies against the phospholipase A2 receptor 1 (PLA2R1). Antigenic targets ...

Rituximab (Rituxan, Genentech) should replace cyclosporine for the treatment of primary membranous nephropathy, say editorialists commenting on the results of the Membranous Nephropathy Trial of ...