Immune complex disease with fatal pulmonary hemorrhage: its occurrence in a patient with myasthenia gravis.
A man with ocular myasthenia gravis had rapidly progressing pulmonary hemorrhage, acute renal failure, arthralgias, and palpable purpura. Lung and skin biopsy specimens and subsequent autopsy revealed immunopathological changes consistent with immune complex disease. Patients with myasthenia gravis may represent a group at risk for immune complex disease.
D000305:Adrenal Cortex Hormones / Q000627:therapeutic use; D002831:Choroid Plexus / Q000276:immunology; D005128:Eye Diseases / Q000150:complications / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000276:immunology*; D005455:Fluorescent Antibody Technique; D006470:Hemorrhage / Q000150:complications / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000276:immunology*; D006801:Humans; D007105:Immune Complex Diseases / Q000150:complications* / Q000188:drug therapy; D007074:Immunoglobulin G / Q000276:immunology; D007668:Kidney / Q000276:immunology; D008168:Lung / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000276:immunology; D008171:Lung Diseases / Q000150:complications / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000276:immunology*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009157:Myasthenia Gravis / Q000150:complications / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000276:immunology*; D009388:Neostigmine / Q000627:therapeutic use; D011650:Pulmonary Alveoli / Q000473:pathology; D011859:Radiography; D012867:Skin / Q000276:immunology
D000305:Adrenal Cortex Hormones; D007074:Immunoglobulin G; D009388:Neostigmine