[Clinical aspect of diffuse alveolar hemorrhage syndrome].
Thirteen cases of diffuse alveolar hemorrhage (DAH) were encountered in our Hospital between January 1996 and October 2001. Eight patients were men and five were women, their mean age being 59.5 +/- 19.2 years (range, 18-88 years). Three patients had systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), three (23%) had polyarteritis nodosa (including microscopic PN), one (7.7%) had allergic granulomatous angitis, one (7.7%) had Goodpasture syndrome, one (7.7%) had MPO-ANCA-associated vasculitis, one (7.7%) had Behçet's disease, one (7.7%) had chronic heart failure caused by mitral stenosis, one (7.7%) had chronic renal failure (etiology unknown), and the last had no particular disorder. Nine episodes (69%) had occurred as complications of primary diseases, four (31%) as the first symptoms of underlying diseases. Prognosis was poor in the former cases but in the latter, the prognosis was relatively favorable.
Ishida
Kazuo
K
Division of Respiratory and Infectious Diseases, St. Marianna University School of Medicine.
Seki
Reiko
R
Inoue
Takeo
T
Iwamoto
Tokuzen
T
Hoshino
Makoto
M
Nakagawa
Takemasa
T
D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D015267:Churg-Strauss Syndrome / Q000150:complications; D005260:Female; D006470:Hemorrhage / Q000209:etiology*; D006801:Humans; D008171:Lung Diseases / Q000209:etiology*; D008180:Lupus Erythematosus, Systemic / Q000150:complications; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011379:Prognosis; D011650:Pulmonary Alveoli / Q000473:pathology*; D013577:Syndrome; D014657:Vasculitis / Q000150:complications