Kidney Patient Guide

I haven't been to this site for a while. My son was diagnosed with MPGN two years ago (two separate labs agreed it was MPGN, but one said type 1 and one said type 3 -- we've been operating under the assumption it's type 1) He is now seven years old. In December we were told he was in "remission...

My son has been treated for MPGN type 1 for the last 18 months. We thought things were going well, but now we're being told his protein levels are going back up. Something about protein and creatine being 0.55??? Our nephrologist isn't the best communicator sometimes and so we wonder about this trau...

I just found your post. My son also has MPGN. Two separate universities looked at the biopsy and both said MPGN -- one said type 1, the other said type 3. My nephrologist told us the treatment would be the same -- and he studied at the Univ of Cincinnatti, where the most research seems to have been ...