Pulmonary haemorrhage complicating Wegener's granulomatosis and microscopic polyarteritis
| Autor: | J M Hughes, Andrew J. Rees, S J Haworth, Caroline O. S. Savage, D Carr |
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| Rok vydání: | 1985 |
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Lung Diseases
Hemoptysis medicine.medical_specialty Hemorrhage Hemoglobins medicine Humans Arteritis General Environmental Science Cause of death Lung medicine.diagnostic_test business.industry Pulmonary Diffusing Capacity Smoking Granulomatosis with Polyangiitis General Engineering General Medicine medicine.disease Radiography medicine.anatomical_structure Microscopic Polyarteritis General Earth and Planetary Sciences Radiology Chest radiograph business Vasculitis Research Article Systemic vasculitis |
| Zdroj: | BMJ. 290:1775-1778 |
| ISSN: | 1468-5833 0959-8138 |
| DOI: | 10.1136/bmj.290.6484.1775 |
| Popis: | The incidence and characteristics of pulmonary haemorrhage in a series of 89 patients with systemic vasculitis were analysed. Pulmonary haemorrhage occurred in 32 of these patients and was associated with haemoptysis in all 32, alveolar shadowing in the chest radiograph in 28, and a significantly raised transfer coefficient in 30. Pulmonary haemorrhage usually resolved with treatment by immunosuppressive drugs but was the cause of death in 11 patients. In contrast with patients with antibasement membrane antibodies there was no correlation between pulmonary haemorrhage and cigarette smoking. Pulmonary haemorrhage is a cause of serious morbidity in patients with systemic vasculitis. |
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