ABSTRACT

The Goodpasture’s syndrome is a rare autoimmune disease, with an incidence of 0.1 person per million, considered as a hypersensibility disease which etiology is unknown. It consists of three characteristics, pulmonary hemorrhages, proliferative glomerulonephritis, and anti-glomerular basement membrane antibody which react to the noncollagenous domain of the alpha 3 chain of collagen type IV. In order to make the clinic diagnostic, the presence of renal and pulmonary manifestations is necessary. The pulmonary manifestations are usually found before renal manifestations, among them hemoptysis being the most common. Treatment of this disease has suffered modifications with the development of new techniques, and is headed towards the control of the bleeding complications, such as anemia or hemodynamic instability, and the dropdown of circulating antibodies, mainly by the use of immune suppressors and plasmapheresis. Evaluating the prognosis of this disease gives very little evidence, that’s why it is impossible to establish in a clear way, however most patients will progress invariably to terminal renal insufficiency.

KEYWORDS

Goodpasture´s syndrome, pulmonary hemorrhage.

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