Amiodarone-induced acute lung toxicity in an ICU setting

Acta Anaesthesiologica Scandinavica

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 569-571

  Skroubis, T ^a   Galiatsou, E ^a   Metafratzi, Z ^a   Karahaliou, A ^a   Kitsakos, A ^a   Nakos, Georgios ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

Author keywords

Acute lung toxicity; Amiodarone; Atrial fibrillation; ICU

Indexed keywords

AMIODARONE; DIGOXIN; DILTIAZEM; FUROSEMIDE; MAGNESIUM SULFATE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; VERAPAMIL; WARFARIN;

AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DYSPNEA; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; HYPOXEMIA; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LUNG EDEMA; LUNG TOXICITY; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TACHYPNEA;

AGED; AMIODARONE; ANTI-ARRHYTHMIA AGENTS; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CYSTECTOMY; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE; LUNG DISEASES; MALE; PULMONARY EDEMA; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION TESTS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; URINARY BLADDER NEOPLASMS;

EID: 16844377324     PISSN: 00015172     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-6576.2005.00606.x     Document Type: Article

References (16)

1. Amiodarone Trials Meta-Analysis Investigators. Effect of prophylactic amiodarone on mortality after acute myocardial infarction and in congestive heart failure: meta-analysis of individual data from 6500 patients in randomized trials. Lancet 1997; 350: 1417-24.
2. Liverani E, Armuzzi A, Mormile MA, Anti A, Gasbarrini G, Centiloni N. Amiodarone-induced adult respiratory distress syndrome after non-thoracotomy subcutaneous defibrilator implantation. J Intern Med 2001; 249: 565-6.
3. Lardinois D, Handschin A, Weder W. Acute amiodarone-induced pulmonary toxicity after lung operation. Ann Thorac Surg 2002; 73: 2033-8.
4. Jessurum GAJ, Crijns HJ. Amiodarone pulmonary toxicity. BMJ 1997; 314: 619-20.
5. Ott MC, Khoor A, Leventhal JP, Paterick TE, Burger CD. Pulmonary toxicity in patients receiving low-dose amiodarone. Chest 2003; 123: 646-51.
6. Wood DL, Osborn MJ, Rooke J, Holmes DR Jr. Amiodarone pulmonary toxicity: report of two cases associated with rapidly progressive fatal adult respiratory distress syndrome after pulmonary angiography. Mayo Clin Proc 1985; 60: 601-3.
7. Kaushik S, Hussain A, Clarke P, Lazar HL. Acute pulmonary toxicity after low dose amiodarone therapy. Ann Thorac Surg 2001; 72: 1760-1.
8. Ashrafian H, Davey P. Is amiodarone an underrecognised cause of acute respiratory failure in the ICU? Chest 2001; 120: 275-82.
9. Donaldson L, Grant IS, Naysmith MR, Thomas JS. Acute amiodarone-induced lung toxicity. Intensive Care Med 1998; 24: 626-30.
10. Van Mieghem W, Coolen L, Malysse I, Lacquet LM, Deneffe CJ, Demedts MG. Amiodarone and the development of ARDS after lung surgery. Chest 1994; 105: 1642-5.
11. Lapinsky SE, Mullen JB, Balter MS. Rapid pulmonary phospholipid accumulation induced by intravenous amiodarone. Can J Cardiol 1993; 9: 322-4.
12. Hollenberg S, Dellinger P. Noncardiac surgery: postoperative arrhythmias. Crit Care Med 2000; 28 (10 Suppl): N145-N150.
13. Clemo HF, Wood MA, Gilligan DM, Ellenbogen KA. Intravenous amiodarone for acute heart rate control in the critically ill patient with atrial tachyarrhythmias. Am J Cardiol 1998; 81: 594-8.
14. Delle Karth G, Geppert A, Neunteufl T et al. Amiodarone versus diltiazem for rate control in critically ill patients with arial tachyarrhythmias. Crit Care Med 2001; 29: 1149-53.
15. Hughes M, Binning A. Intravenous amiodarone in intensive care. Time for a reappraisal? Intensive Care Med 2000; 26: 1730-9.
16. De Decker K, Jorens PG, Van Schil P. Cardiac complications after noncardiac thoracic surgery: an evidence-based current review. Ann Thorac Surg 2003; 75: 1340-8.