A case with life-threatening interstitial pneumonia associated with bucillamine treatment

Modern Rheumatology

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 522-525

  Ogiwara, Yuiko ^a   Mochizuki, Hideaki ^a   Morioka, Takehiko ^a   Sugihara, Takahiko ^a   Makino, Fumihiko ^a   Takahashi, Hideki ^a  

^a Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Gerontology   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bucillamine; Elderly; Interstitial pneumonia; Lung injury; Rheumatoid arthritis

Indexed keywords

BUCILLAMINE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; OXYGEN; PREDNISOLONE;

AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COUGHING; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG MEGADOSE; DRUG PULSE THERAPY; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; DYSPNEA; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOXEMIA; IMMUNOGLOBULIN BLOOD LEVEL; INTERSTITIAL PNEUMONIA; LIFE THREATENING DISEASE; LYMPHOCYTOPENIA; OXYGEN SATURATION; OXYGEN THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIOXIDANTS; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; CYSTEINE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG DISEASES, INTERSTITIAL;

EID: 53549107220     PISSN: 14397595     EISSN: 14397609     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10165-008-0083-7     Document Type: Article

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