‘How Am I Going To Do This’: Local Man, 30, Seeks Kidney After Five Years of Dialysis
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Miles Casas, a 30-year-old man from New Canaan, has been battling kidney failure for the past five years. Diagnosed with Membranoproliferative Glomerulonephritis; a rare autoimmune disease, at the age of 12, Casas’ condition would only worsen with age.
”It’s extremely rare, it typically happens in children,” Casas, who attended St. Aloysius School, told the New Canaanite. “A mutation happens in the DNA for unknown reasons, maybe caused by stress or an illness.