Anatom3DBowman's capsule
Capsula glomeruli · Bowmanův váček
Urinary system
Looks like
A microscopic double-walled cup wrapped round each glomerulus, about a million per kidney.
What it does
Catches the fluid filtered from the blood and passes it into the tubule.
Keeping it well
Damage to the filter lets protein leak into urine; frothy urine or swollen ankles should prompt a urine test.
Related conditions
- Acute kidney injury
- Amyloidosis (AL and ATTR)
- Bladder cancer
- Chronic kidney disease
- Dehydration & electrolyte disorders
- Diabetes insipidus (arginine vasopressin deficiency)
- Diabetic ketoacidosis
- Glomerulonephritis
- Haemolytic uraemic syndrome
- Hantavirus infection
- High blood pressure
- Hydronephrosis
- Hyperparathyroidism
- IgA nephropathy
- Kidney cancer
- Kidney infection
- Kidney stones
- Lead poisoning
- Leptospirosis (Weil's disease)
- Nephrotic syndrome
- Poisoning & overdose
- Polycystic kidney disease
- Pre-eclampsia
- Renal artery stenosis
- Rhabdomyolysis
- SIADH (inappropriate antidiuretic hormone)
- Systemic lupus erythematosus
- Thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (TTP)
- Toxic shock syndrome
- Tuberous sclerosis complex
- Vesicoureteral reflux
- Wilms tumour (nephroblastoma)
- Yellow fever