Update on Diffuse Alveolar Hemorrhage and Pulmonary Vasculitis
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Pulmonary thromboembolism and diffuse alveolar hemorrhage in granulomatosis with polyangiitis vasculitis.
Granulomatosis with polyangiitis (GPA) is a small-vessel and medium-vessel vasculitis that affects mainly the respiratory tract and kidney. The main acute complications of GPA are diffuse pulmonary hemorrhage and acute renal failure. Renal involvement occurs in 17% of patients, with histological features of pauci-immune, focal, and segmental necrotizing crescentic glomerulonephritis.1 Diffuse a...
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عنوان ژورنال: Immunology and Allergy Clinics of North America
سال: 2012
ISSN: 0889-8561
DOI: 10.1016/j.iac.2012.08.001