Rapidly progressive pulmonary haemorrhage in a case of microscopic polyangiitis

BMJ Case Reports

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Mackay, James ^a  

^a JAMES PAGET UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CREATININE; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; HEMOGLOBIN; MYELOPEROXIDASE; PREDNISOLONE;

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; AGED; ANKLE EDEMA; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COUGHING; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE COURSE; DIVERTICULOSIS; DYSPNEA; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; HEMATURIA; HIATUS HERNIA; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPERTENSION; IMMUNOASSAY; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; KIDNEY BIOPSY; LUNG HEMORRHAGE; MALE; METABOLIC ACIDOSIS; MICROSCOPIC POLYANGIITIS; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; NORMOCHROMIC NORMOCYTIC ANEMIA; POSITIVE END EXPIRATORY PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEINURIA; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; THORAX PAIN; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

EID: 84860421826     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1757790X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bcr.06.2011.4336     Document Type: Article

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