Membranous nephropathy associated with primary biliary cirrhosis and bullous pemphigoid.
Membranous nephropathy has been shown to be an immune-mediated lesion in both human and experimental animal models. Primary biliary cirrhosis and bullous pemphigoid are also diseases of probable autoimmune origin. In this brief report, a woman with all three disease entities is described and an interrelationship among the three is discussed.
D000368:Aged; D001327:Autoimmune Diseases; D005260:Female; D005921:Glomerulonephritis / Q000150:complications*; D006323:Heart Arrest / Q000150:complications; D006801:Humans; D007668:Kidney / Q000473:pathology; D008099:Liver / Q000473:pathology; D008105:Liver Cirrhosis, Biliary / Q000150:complications*; D010391:Pemphigoid, Bullous / Q000150:complications*; D012872:Skin Diseases, Vesiculobullous / Q000150:complications*