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Goodpasture syndrome

Symptoms may include general body discomfort or pain, epistaxis, hematuria, respiratory problems, anemia, chest pain, and kidney failure

Antibodies also attack the collagen of the alveoli, resulting in pulmonary hemorrhage

Currently, the preferred term is “anti-GBM antibody disease.”

Anti-GBM disease is thought to result from an environmental insult (smoking, infections, exposure to certain drugs) in a person with genetic susceptibility

Diagnosis is confirmed with the presence of anti-GBM antibody in the blood or in the kidney

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