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Goodpasture syndrome (GPS), also known as anti–glomerular basement membrane disease, is a rare autoimmune disease in which antibodies attack the basement membrane in lungs and kidneys, leading to bleeding from the lungs, glomerulonephritis, [1] and kidney failure. [2]
Pulmonary-renal syndrome (PRS) is a rare medical syndrome in which respiratory failure involving bleeding in the lungs and kidney failure (glomerulonephritis) occur. [1] PRS is associated with a high rate of morbidity and death. [1]
The disorder was first identified in a British family by the physician Cecil A. Alport in 1927. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] Alport syndrome once also had the label hereditary nephritis , but this is misleading as there are many other causes of hereditary kidney disease and 'nephritis'.
By contrast, nephrotic syndrome is characterized by proteinuria and a constellation of other symptoms that specifically do not include hematuria. [6] Nephritic syndrome, like nephrotic syndrome, may involve low level of albumin in the blood due to the protein albumin moving from the blood to the urine. [7]
MPGN accounts for approximately 4% of primary renal causes of nephrotic syndrome in children and 7% in adults. [3] It should not be confused with membranous glomerulonephritis, a condition in which the basement membrane is thickened, but the mesangium is not.
Similar to other causes of nephrotic syndrome (e.g., focal segmental glomerulosclerosis or minimal change disease), membranous nephropathy is known to predispose affected individuals to develop blood clots such as pulmonary emboli. Membranous nephropathy in particular is known to increase this risk more than other causes of nephrotic syndrome ...
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1285 12828 Ensembl ENSG00000169031 ENSMUSG00000079465 UniProt Q01955 Q9QZS0 RefSeq (mRNA) NM_000091 NM_031362 NM_031363 NM_031364 NM_031365 NM_031366 NM_007734 RefSeq (protein) NP_000082 NP_031760 Location (UCSC) Chr 2: 227.16 – 227.31 Mb Chr 1: 82.56 – 82.7 Mb PubMed search Wikidata View/Edit Human View/Edit Mouse Collagen alpha-3(IV) chain is a protein that in humans is encoded by the ...