Investigations
Chest radiography reveals:
- confluent, sometimes bilateral, shadowing
- air bronchograms
Lung biopsy may be diagnostic:
- it is important to demonstrate the absence of anti- basement membrane antibodies
Bronchoalveolar lavage:
- yields large numbers of iron-laden macrophages
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