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Antibodies to the tubular basement membrane in the blood

Alexey Portnov, medical expert
Last reviewed: 18.10.2021

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Normally no antibodies to the tubular basement membrane are present in the blood serum.

Tubulointerstitial nephritis is an inflammatory disease of the kidneys of a noninfectious nature with the localization of the pathological process in the interstitial (interstitial) tissue and the damage to the tubular nephron apparatus.

Antibodies to the tubular basement membrane are detected in approximately 50% of patients with tubulointerstitial nephritis.

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