Diseases

Immune Complex Diseases

Group of diseases mediated by the deposition of large soluble complexes of antigen and antibody with resultant damage to tissue. Besides SERUM SICKNESS and the ARTHUS REACTION, evidence supports a pathogenic role for immune complexes in many other IMMUNE SYSTEM DISEASES including GLOMERULONEPHRITIS, systemic lupus erythematosus (LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS, SYSTEMIC) and POLYARTERITIS NODOSA.

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Group of diseases mediated by the deposition of large soluble complexes of antigen and antibody with resultant damage to tissue. Besides SERUM SICKNESS and the ARTHUS REACTION, evidence supports a pathogenic role for immune complexes in many other IMMUNE SYSTEM DISEASES including GLOMERULONEPHRITIS, systemic lupus erythematosus (LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS, SYSTEMIC) and POLYARTERITIS NODOSA.

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7 entry terms
  • Hypersensitivity, Type III
  • Type III Hypersensitivity
  • Disease, Immune Complex
  • Diseases, Immune Complex
  • Hypersensitivities, Type III
  • Immune Complex Disease
  • Type III Hypersensitivities

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Indexed with the subheadings blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemically induced, classification, complications, congenital, diagnosis, diagnostic imaging, diet therapy, drug therapy, economics, embryology, enzymology, epidemiology, ethnology, etiology, genetics, history, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, mortality, nursing, parasitology, pathology, physiopathology, prevention & control, psychology, radiotherapy, rehabilitation, surgery, therapy, urine, veterinary, virology.

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disease caused by deposition of antigen-antibody complexes with resultant damage to tissue; "immune complex" = IMMUNE COMPLEX see ANTIGEN-ANTIBODY COMPLEX

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History Note

93; was IMMUNE COMPLEX DISEASE 1972-92 (Prov 1972-73)

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Previous Indexing

  • Immunologic Diseases (1971)

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  1. C20w.543w.520w

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QW 608

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Immune Complex Diseases. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D007105. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D007105
  2. Immune Complex Diseases. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_III_hypersensitivity
  3. Immune Complex Diseases. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5898315