Goodpasture

Goodpasture's Syndrome is a form of rapidly progressive glomerulonephritis (inflammation of the kidney glomeruli) involving progressive decrease in kidney function, accompanied by a cough with bloody sputum.

Goodpasture's Syndrome is a hereditary condition where the dissociation of the collagen NC1 hexamers cause glomerulonephritis.

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