Question

What autoimmune diseases cause kidney problems?

Answer 1

Autoimmune disease:

1. Autoimmune diseases are those diseases that arise from an abnormal overactive immune response of the body against substances and tissues normally present in the body.
2. This immune system mistakes some parts of the body as a pathogen and attacks them.
3. It may be restricted to certain organs or involved in a particular tissue in different places.
4. The treatment of an autoimmune disease is typical with immunosuppression a medication that decreases the immune response.

Causes of kidney problems due to autoimmune disorders are:

Lupus nephritis:

1. Lupus nephritis is the inflammation of the kidneys that is caused by systematic lupus erythematous an autoimmune disease.
2. It is a type of glomerulonephritis in which the glomeruli will become inflamed.
3. As a result of systematic lupus erythematosus, the cause of glomerulonephritis is said to be secondary and has a different pattern and outcome from conditions with a primary cause originating in the kidney.

Polyarteritis nodosa:

1. It is a systematic vasculitis of small or medium-sized muscular arteries.
2. Typically involved renal and visceral vessels but sparing the pulmonary circulation.
3. Vessels of the kidneys, heart, liver, and gastrointestinal tract are involved in the descending order of frequency.