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Anti-glomerular basement membrane glomerulopathy in a young child
K Boven1, H P Miljoen, K J Van Hoeck
1Department of Pediatrics, University Hospital of Antwerp, Belgium.
Pediatric Nephrology (Berlin, Germany)
|December 1, 1996
Abstract:
We report the youngest patient with anti-glomerular basement membrane disease described in the literature to date. Age-dependent expression of the target antigen in this auto-immune disease explains the low incidence in young children. Despite adequate immunosuppression, renal function did not recover in our patient.