Chest
Volume 139, Issue 1, January 2011, Pages 228-229
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Diffuse Alveolar Hemorrhage in Infectious Diseases

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To the Editor

We read with great interest the article by Lara and Schwarz1 in a recent issue of CHEST (May 2010), in which they discuss the diagnosis of the underlying histologic and clinical entities responsible for diffuse alveolar hemorrhage (DAH) as well as treatment options. The authors reviewed the different causes of DAH, but they did not mention the infectious diseases that can lead to this manifestation. Thus, we would like to report the case of a patient with 2009 influenza A(H1N1) (A[H1N1]) who

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