Helminthic therapy and kidney diseases

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Idiopathic nephrotic syndrome (INS)

See also

• 2024 Aug Investigating the Mechanisms Governing Humoral Immunity in Autoimmune Kidney Disease (Thesis, McGill)

See also (Hookworm nephrothic syndrome)

• 2025 Dec Case Report and Literature Review: Nephrotic Syndrome Induced by Hookworm Infection

Podocyte injury

• 2023 Feb 20 Subclinical signs of podocyte injury associated with Circulating Anodic Antigen (CAA) in Schistosoma mansoni-infected patients in Brazil

Rapidly-progressive glomerulonephritis (RPGN)

See also

• 2024 Aug Investigating the Mechanisms Governing Humoral Immunity in Autoimmune Kidney Disease (Thesis, McGill)

The reintroduction to the digestive tract of a controlled number of specially domesticated, mutualistic helminths (intestinal worms) in the form of microscopic eggs or larvae to reconstitute a depleted biome to treat or prevent chronic inflammation, autoimmune disease and other immune-related disorders, including allergy.

A helminth that lives in the small intestine. Necator americanus (NA) is the only hookworm species used in helminthic therapy. Its microscopic larvae are applied periodically to the skin.