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Investigations

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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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