title: [Goodpasture's syndrome].
abstract: Goodpasture s syndrome (GS) is an auto-immune disease that is part of the pulmonary-renal syndrome spectrum. It is characterized by the linear deposition of anti-glomerular basement membrane antibodies (anti-GBM) in glomerular and alveolar basement membrane resulting in alveolar hemorrhage and progressive glomerulonephritis. An early diagnosis is important to decrease clinical morbidity. In the present work we illustrate a GS case initially diagnosed as Wegener s granulomatosis. The patient showed favorable clinical evolution with corticosteroid therapy associated with plasmapheresis and cyclophosphamide.
authors.affiliation: Disciplina da Reumatologia, Hospital das Clínicas, Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brasil. samuel.shinjo@gmail.com
authors.forename: Samuel Katsuyuki
authors.initials: SK
authors.lastname: Shinjo
authors.forename: Eduardo Massato
authors.initials: EM
authors.lastname: Hasegawa
authors.forename: Denise Maria Avancini
authors.initials: DM
authors.lastname: Costa Malheiros
authors.forename: Mauricio
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Levy-Neto
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D019867:Anti-Glomerular Basement Membrane Disease / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000628:therapy; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male