Antineutrophil cytoplasmic autoantibody–negative pauci-immune crescentic glomerulonephritis

M Chen, F Yu, SX Wang, WZ Zou… - Journal of the …, 2007 - journals.lww.com
Pauci-immune crescentic glomerulonephritis (CrGN) is one of the most common causes of
rapidly progressive glomerulonephritis. The majority of patients with pauci-immune CrGN
had circulating antineutrophil cytoplasmic autoantibody (ANCA). However, patients with
ANCA-negative pauci-immune CrGN were not investigated fully. This study aimed to
analyze the characteristics of this subgroup of patients. Patients whose pauci-immune CrGN
was diagnosed from 1997 to 2006 in one center were studied retrospectively. The criteria of …