PULMONARY-RENAL SYNDROMES

[PULMONARY LESIONS + GLOMERULONEPHRITIS]

systemic diseases affecting lung and kidney:

Goodpasture's syndrome [anti-GBM disease]

Wegener's granulomatosis

microscopic polyarteritis

polyarteritis nodosa and Churg-Strauss syndrome

cryoglobulinaemia

systemic lupus erythematosus

penicillamine

1� lung disease with renal involvement:

bacterial pneumonia complicated by glomerulonephritis

Legionnaire's disease

1� renal disease with lung involvement:

thromboembolism:

pulmonary embolism following renal vein thrombosis

pulmonary oedema in:

acute nephritic syndrome

acute renal failure

chronic renal failure

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