Familial interstitial nephritis.
Hereditary nephritis is a well recognized disease, but its clinical manifestations and patterns of inheritance are variable. We report a family with hereditary renal disease in which the morphological lesion is interstitial nephritis and the pattern of inheritance autosomal dominant. In contrast with previous reports, microscopic/macroscopic hematuria was not a consistent marker for renal involvement. The family also demonstrates the inheritance of rheumatoid arthritis in an autosomal dominant pattern, not temporally related to the interstitial renal disease.
D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001172:Arthritis, Rheumatoid / Q000235:genetics; D001284:Atrophy; D005260:Female; D005799:Genes, Dominant; D006801:Humans; D007668:Kidney / Q000473:pathology; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009395:Nephritis, Interstitial / Q000235:genetics* / Q000473:pathology; D010375:Pedigree; D012598:Sclerosis