Anti-Glomerular Basement Membrane Disease
"Anti-Glomerular Basement Membrane Disease" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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An autoimmune disease of the KIDNEY and the LUNG. It is characterized by the presence of circulating autoantibodies targeting the epitopes in the non-collagenous domains of COLLAGEN TYPE IV in the basement membranes of kidney glomeruli (KIDNEY GLOMERULUS) and lung alveoli (PULMONARY ALVEOLI), and the subsequent destruction of these basement membranes. Clinical features include pulmonary alveolar hemorrhage and glomerulonephritis.
| Descriptor ID |
D019867
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| MeSH Number(s) |
C08.381.483.156 C12.777.419.570.363.304 C13.351.968.419.570.363.304 C20.111.190
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| Concept/Terms |
Anti-Glomerular Basement Membrane Disease- Anti-Glomerular Basement Membrane Disease
- Anti Glomerular Basement Membrane Disease
- Anti-GBM Disease
- Anti GBM Disease
- Lung Purpura with Nephritis
- Goodpasture's Syndrome
- Goodpastures Syndrome
- Syndrome, Goodpasture's
- Goodpasture Syndrome
- Syndrome, Goodpasture
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