My husband was diagnosed with anti-GBM disease with complete kidney failure. He was hospitalized with a severe attack of diverticulitis with a microperforation which walled itself over. At the end of his hospital stay, he had his first ever attack of gout, prescribed indocin and allopurinol and two weeks later was diagnosed with anti-GBM. He is not a smoker, nor had exposure to carbon solvents. Perhaps a hypsensitive reaction to allopurinol caused kidney failure leading to anti=GBM. I thought this information may be helpful in determining causes of anti-GBM. Feel free to contact me for more detailed information. I might add he underwent a successful living donor kidney transplant (our son) 14 months from diagnosis and all is well.

Thank you for your attention. Looking forward to hearing from someone.

Wednesday, September 9th, 2009 1:25 pm by margaret brennan

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