Anti–glomerular basement membrane disease with rapidly progressive glomerulonephritis and hemorrhagic alveolitis in pediatric patients (reviev of literature)

   The article is devoted to controversial issues of autoimmune small vessel vasculitis with kidney and lung damage. Modern data on the features of pathogenesis, clinical manifestation, treatment, outcome, and prognosis of the disease with AT to GBM have presented: an idiopathic disease with AT of class IgG (IgG1 and IgG3) against non-collagen domain-1 (NC1) α3-chain ofcollagen type IV GBM (Goodpasture autoantigen); with the simultaneous increase in AT to GBM and ANCA; "de novo" diseases with AT to the α5(IV) and α3(IV) chains of GBM type IV collagen in renal graft with Alport syndrome in pediatric patients.