An 80-year-old female with double positive disease: Case report and brief review of literature

American Journal of Case Reports

Volumn 14, Issue , 2013, Pages 30-33

  Almouradi, Tarek ^a   Hart, Peter ^a   Muram Zborovski, Talia ^a  

^a Department of Ambulatory and Community Health   (United States)

Author keywords

Double positive disease; Goodpasture syndrome. p ANCA; Pulmonary renal syndrome

Indexed keywords

GLOMERULUS BASEMENT MEMBRANE ANTIBODY; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; NEUTROPHIL CYTOPLASMIC ANTIBODY;

ACUTE GLOMERULONEPHRITIS; AGED; ANCA ASSOCIATED VASCULITIS; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; AUTOPSY; CACHEXIA; CARDIOMEGALY; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DOUBLE POSITIVE DISEASE; ECCHYMOSIS; FATIGUE; FEMALE; GLOMERULOSCLEROSIS; GOODPASTURE SYNDROME; HEMODIALYSIS; HEMOPTYSIS; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; IMMUNOPATHOLOGY; LENGTH OF STAY; LUNG EDEMA; LUNG EXAMINATION; LUNG HEMORRHAGE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PLASMAPHERESIS; RARE DISEASE; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS; SYSTOLIC HEART MURMUR; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; URINALYSIS; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

EID: 84873709354     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19415923     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.12659/AJCR.883761     Document Type: Article

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