title: [Familial small-vessel vasculitis of the kidney].
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Familial forms of small-vessel vasculitis has been reported in 14 families (including this one).
  
  
  METHODS
  A father and son were both diagnosed with renal vasculitis (pauci-immune crescentic glomerulonephritis). Both had antimyeloperoxidase autoantibodies, and there was no evidence of a common environmental factor.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  These cases suggest the role of constitutional factors in the pathogenesis of antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody-associated vasculitis.
authors.affiliation: Service de Medecine Internenéphrologie, Centre Hospitalier de Valenciennes.
authors.forename: J P
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Devaux
authors.forename: X
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Kyndt
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Binaut
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Lemaitre
authors.forename: L H
authors.initials: LH
authors.lastname: Noël
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Vanhille
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D006801:Humans; D007668:Kidney / Q000098:blood supply*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D014657:Vasculitis / Q000235:genetics*