Crescentic glomerulonephritis with anti-GBM antibody but no glomerular deposition

Abstract Background Anti-glomerular basement membrane (GBM) antibodies are highly specific for Goodpasture’s or anti-GBM disease, in which they are generally directed against the non-collagenous (NC1) domain of the alpha 3 chain of type IV collagen(α3(IV)), and less commonly, toward the α 4(IV) or α...

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Main Authors: Omid Sadeghi-Alavijeh, Scott Henderson, Paul Bass, Terence Cook, Kirsten DeGroot, Alan David Salama
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2018-09-01
Series:BMC Nephrology
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12882-018-1027-x