Around Town
‘How Am I Going To Do This’: Local Man, 30, Seeks Kidney After Five Years of Dialysis
|
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. It could be for various reasons, but basically it’s unknown and there’s not really a cure for it.”
As a result of this condition, Casas lost function in both kidneys in 2019, requiring him to undergo nine hours of dialysis every night in order to survive.