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A 50-year-old woman was admitted because of high fever and fatigue. Proteinuria, hematuria, and elevated BUN (47.8 mg/dl) and creatinine (3.4 mg/dl) suggested rapidly progressive glomerulonephritis. The serological study revealed all negative results for rheumatoid factor, antinuclear antibody, serum cryoglobulins, MPO-ANCA, PR3-ANCA, and anti-streptolysin O. Antiglomerular basement membrane (GBM) antibody, as assessed by ELISA, was 11 EU (normal, <10). Kidney biopsy on the eighth hospital day demonstrated pauci-immune-type crescentic glomerulonephritis without ANCA. Methylprednisolone pulse therapy (500 mg/day, 3 days) and 45 mg/day prednisolone orally were started. At 3 weeks after kidney biopsy, the anti-GBM antibody value increased from 11 EU/ml to 116 EU/ml, and MPO and PR3-ANCA were still negative. HLA type was DR8 and DR 15(2), with a genotype of HLA-DRB1*08021 and HLA-DRB1*15011. The present case suggests that HLA-DR15 plays an important role on antibody production against alpha 3(IV) NC1 autoantigen after severe nephritis or tissue damage.
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Kitagawa, W., Miura, N., Yamada, H. et al. The increase of antiglomerular basement membrane antibody following pauci-immune-type crescentic glomerulonephritis. Clin Exp Nephrol 9, 69–73 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10157-004-0334-7
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