Goodpasture's syndrome complicated by nocardia asteroides infection.

A case of Goodpasture's syndrome--an immunological disorder characterised by a proliferative glomerunlonephritis with haemorrhagic pulmonary alveolitis--is described. There has been complete functional recovery of the presenting renal failure, but the immunosuppressive therapy was complicated by a severe episode of metastasising nocardiosis.