Rheumatoid arthritis complicated with acute interstitial pneumonia induced by leflunomide as an adverse reaction

Internal Medicine

Volumn 43, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 1201-1204

  Kamata, Yasuyuki ^a   Nara, Hiroyuki ^a   Kamimura, Takeshi ^a   Haneda, Kengo ^a   Iwamoto, Masahiro ^a   Masuyama, Junichi ^a   Okazaki, Hitoaki ^a   Minota, Seiji ^a  

^a JICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Interstitial pneumonia; Leflunomide; Rheumatoid arthritis; Side effect

Indexed keywords

COLESTYRAMINE; COTRIMOXAZOLE; CYCLOSPORIN; LEFLUNOMIDE; METHOTREXATE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; PREDNISOLONE;

ADULT; ARTERIAL OXYGEN TENSION; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COUGHING; DIARRHEA; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG ERUPTION; DRUG FATALITY; DRUG FEVER; DRUG INDUCED DISEASE; DRUG PULSE THERAPY; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; HUMAN; INTERSTITIAL PNEUMONIA; JAPAN; KIDNEY DYSFUNCTION; LIVER DYSFUNCTION; LIVER INJURY; MALE; NAUSEA; PNEUMOCYSTIS PNEUMONIA; POSTMARKETING SURVEILLANCE; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS, NON-STEROIDAL; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; DRUG ERUPTIONS; HUMANS; ISOXAZOLES; LUNG DISEASES, INTERSTITIAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 11344278661     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.43.1201     Document Type: Article

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