Immunohistology of the Lung in Goodpasture's Syndrome

Acute Nephritis and Pulmonary Alveolitis Following Pneumococcal Pneumonia

“…The moderate inflammatory changes encountered in his synovial fluid are typical for culture-negative fluids obtained from patients with bacterial infectional arthritis. 12 The positive synovial culture followed by a sterile culture 36 hours later probably indicates suppression of the microorganism by intrasynovial host-defense mechanisms. An alternative explanation is that the polyarthritis represented an immu¬ nologie rather than septic manifestation of endocarditis and that the initial aspirate included infected blood; however, the arthrocenteses were not traumatic, and gross blood was not seen in the aspirates.…”

A Mini-Epidemic of Goodpasture’s Syndrome

“…IgG and C3 have been found in a linear pattern on the alveolar septal membrane in seven cases of Goodpasture's syndrome [1,7,[9][10][11]19]. Other investigators [3,18] have been unable to find such pulmonary deposits.…”