PMID: 11321820Apr 27, 2001Paper

Lung involvement in rapidly progressive glomerulonephritis

Nihon Kokyūki Gakkai zasshi = the journal of the Japanese Respiratory Society
H KourakataF Gejyo

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to evaluate pulmonary involvement in rapidly progressive glomerulonephritis (RPGN). Of 71 patients in whom RPGN was diagnosed, 32 (45.1%) had pulmonary involvement: 12, alveolar hemorrhage (AH) (16.9%); 10, interstitial pneumonia (IP) (14.1%); four, chronic bronchial lesions (5.6%); two, consolidation (2.8%), and four, old inflammatory lesions (5.6%). Investigation of which organ of the twelve AH patients, the kidney or the lung, was the first to be involved, showed that the lung preceded in one patient, the kidney was first in three, and the lung and kidney occurred at the same time in the other eight. Of the ten IP patients, the lung preceded in eight, the kidney was ahead in two, and lung and kidney were simultaneous in one. Three patients had a history of pneumoconiosis, and two had acute progressive IP. Seventeen (45.9%) of 37 patients who tested positive for antineutrophil cytoplasmic autoantibodies (MPO-ANCA) had lung involvement, and three (30.0%) of the ten patients who tested negative for MPO-ANCA, PR 3-ANCA and anti-GBM antibody also had lung involvement.

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