Acute amiodarone-induced pulmonary toxicity following lung resection

Respiration

Volumn 70, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 310-312

  Handschin, Alexander Edmund ^a   Lardinois, Didier ^a   Schneiter, Didier ^a   Bloch, Konrad ^a   Weder, Walter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Acute pulmonary toxicity; Amiodarone; Lobectomy

Indexed keywords

AMIODARONE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE SODIUM SUCCINATE; PIPERACILLIN; PREDNISONE; STEROID; TAZOBACTAM;

ACUTE TOXICITY; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER SURGERY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COUGHING; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; DYSPNEA; FEVER; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; LEUKOCYTOSIS; LUNG FUNCTION; LUNG LOBE; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; LUNG RESECTION; LUNG TOXICITY; MALE; OXYGEN THERAPY; PNEUMONIA; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS; SHORT COURSE THERAPY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; AMIODARONE; ANTI-ARRHYTHMIA AGENTS; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; HUMANS; LUNG; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; PNEUMONECTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME, ADULT;

EID: 0042573724     PISSN: 00257931     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000072016     Document Type: Article

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