Dr Goodpasture: “I was not aware of such a connection between lung and kidney disease”

Abstract This article describes how Dr Ernest Goodpasture's 1919 study of influenza became the basis for his name being attached to pulmonary-renal syndromes by Stanton and Tange in 1958. Dr Goodpasture was an unwilling participant in this naming, and in retrospect, the patient he described who...

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Published in:Annals of diagnostic pathology 2010-06, Vol.14 (3), p.194-198
Main Author: Collins, Robert D., MD
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Anti-GBM disease
Anti-Glomerular Basement Membrane Disease - history
Goodpasture
Goodpasture disease
History, 20th Century
Humans
Influenza, Human - history
Pathology
Pathology - history
Pulmonary-renal syndrome
Terminology as Topic
Virology - history
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Summary:Abstract This article describes how Dr Ernest Goodpasture's 1919 study of influenza became the basis for his name being attached to pulmonary-renal syndromes by Stanton and Tange in 1958. Dr Goodpasture was an unwilling participant in this naming, and in retrospect, the patient he described who served as the prototypic case probably had a vasculitic syndrome. Finally, Dr Goodpasture's major contributions to virology are summarized.
ISSN:1092-9134
1532-8198
DOI:10.1016/j.anndiagpath.2010.02.003