Goodpasture's syndrome with massive pulmonary haemorrhage in the absence of circulating anti-GBM antibodies?

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 526-529

  Hellmann, Matthias Alexander ^a   Gerhardt, Thomas Michael ^a   Rabe, Christian ^a   Haas, Susanne ^a   Sauerbruch, Tilman ^a   Woitas, Rainer Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anti GBM antibodies; Goodpasture's syndrome; Pulmonary haemorrhage

Indexed keywords

CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; GLOMERULUS BASEMENT MEMBRANE ANTIBODY; METHYLPREDNISOLONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BRONCHOSCOPY; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DYSPNEA; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; GOODPASTURE SYNDROME; HEMOPTYSIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; LUNG HEMORRHAGE; LUNG INFILTRATE; MALE; PLASMAPHERESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELAPSE; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; RESPIRATORY TRACT INTUBATION; SMOKING;

ADULT; ANTI-GLOMERULAR BASEMENT MEMBRANE DISEASE; ANTIBODIES; HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; KIDNEY GLOMERULUS; LUNG DISEASES; MALE;

EID: 31544462061     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: 14602385     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/gfi279     Document Type: Article

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