An asthmatic adolescent with hematuria and hemoptysis

Pediatr Emerg Care. 2007 Nov;23(11):812-5. doi: 10.1097/PEC.0b013e31815a05ce.

Abstract

When alveolar hemorrhage occurs in association with glomerulonephritis, one of the leading causes is Goodpasture syndrome. We report a case of an adolescent who presented to the emergency department in respiratory distress. Subsequent evaluation was consistent with the diagnosis of Goodpasture syndrome.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Adrenal Cortex Hormones / therapeutic use
  • Anti-Glomerular Basement Membrane Disease / complications
  • Anti-Glomerular Basement Membrane Disease / diagnosis*
  • Anti-Glomerular Basement Membrane Disease / drug therapy
  • Asthma / complications
  • Blood Urea Nitrogen
  • Complement C3 / analysis
  • Complement C4 / analysis
  • Cough / etiology
  • Creatinine / blood
  • Fever / etiology
  • Hematuria / etiology*
  • Hemoptysis / etiology*
  • Humans
  • Lung / diagnostic imaging
  • Male
  • Pharyngitis / etiology
  • Radiography

Substances

  • Adrenal Cortex Hormones
  • Complement C3
  • Complement C4
  • Creatinine