Rapidly progressive glomerulonephritis


Respiratory failure

A severe form of respiratory insufficiency characterized by inadequate gas exchange such that the levels of oxygen or carbon dioxide cannot be maintained within normal limits.


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PMID (PMCID)
30032835
 MALE
Goodpasture's disease in a patient with advanced lung cancer treated with nivolumab: An autopsy case report.
Takahashi N, Tsuji K, Tamiya H, Shinohara T, Kuroda N, Takeuchi E.
Lung Cancer. 2018;122:22-24.
However, the patient died 358239days after admission due to respiratory failure, and an autopsy showed crescentic glomerulonephritis and massive alveolar hemorrhage which were compatible with Goodpasture's disease.
19785783
 MALE Adult
[Variable presentation of antiglomerular basement membrane (anti-GBM) disease: rapid recognition vitally important].
van Galen KP, Oswald LM, van den Aardweg JG, Stam F, van den Berg JG, Bax WA.
Ned Tijdschr Geneeskd. 2009;153:B365.
The first patient presented with massive haemoptysis without glomerulonephritis, the second patient presented with a microcytic anaemia, caused by subclinical alveolar bleeding, and the third patient presented with rapidly progressive glomerulonephritis in combination with respiratory failure.
3261134
 FEMALE
Adult hemolytic uremic syndrome associated with nonimmune deposit crescentic glomerulonephritis and alveolar hemorrhage.
Green J, Brenner B, Gery R, Nachoul F, Lichtig C, Better OS.
Am J Med Sci. 1988;296(2):121-5.
An 18-year-old girl presented with anuric rapidly progressive glomerulonephritis associated with hypoxemic respiratory failure due to diffuse lung hemorrhage.