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autoimmune interstitial lung, joint, and kidney disease

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An autoimmune disease that is characterized by interstitial lung disease, inflammatory arthritis, and immune complex-mediated renal disease and that has_material_basis_in heterozygous mutation in the COPA gene on chromosome 1q23.

Signs and symptoms

  • Hemosiderin-laden macrophages in bronchoalveolar fluid
  • Restrictive ventilatory defect
  • Abnormal pulmonary interstitial morphology
  • Arthritis
  • Antinuclear antibody positivity
  • Pulmonary hemorrhage
  • Elevated erythrocyte sedimentation rate
  • Decreased DLCO
  • Elevated circulating C-reactive protein concentration
  • Crescentic glomerulonephritis

Also known as: Autoimmune interstitial lung disease-arthritis syndrome; COPA syndrome; autoinflammation and autoimmunity, Systemic with immune dysregulation; systemic autoinflammation and autoimmunity with immune dysregulation 1