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Interstitial lung disease
Usual interstitial pneumonia
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Microscopic polyangiitis (MPA) is a systemic disease classified as a vasculitis with small vessel involvement, and it usually expresses anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies (ANCA), normally related to anti-myeloperoxidase antibodies (MPO). We present a clinical case of a 73-year-old patient with diffuse interstitial lung disease with a radiological pattern of usual interstitial pneumonia. It had more than 10 years of development without diagnostic affiliation. Suddenly, the patient suffered from acute renal failure, with positive MPO-ANCA. Kidney and pulmonary biopsy was compatible with microscopic polyangiitis.

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