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Familial polyarteritis nodosa: a serologic and immunogenetic analysis
J D Reveille1, R E Goodman, B O Barger
1Department of Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston 77030.
The Journal of Rheumatology
|February 1, 1989
Abstract:
Familial polyarteritis nodosa (PAN) is a rarely described entity. We describe a family with 2 members with PAN after a common hepatitis B infection. Many other autoimmune diseases and autoantibodies were found in other family members not corresponding to HLA phenotypes, suggesting other non-HLA-linked genetic influences may be operative in predisposition to PAN.