Acute respiratory failure associated with cladribine pneumonitis [1]

Internal Medicine Journal

Volumn 34, Issue 9-10, 2004, Pages 583-584

  Feenstra, J F E ^a   Hickey, B P ^a   Blackwell, E A ^a  

^a GREENSLOPES PRIVATE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLOPURINOL; CLADRIBINE; COCODAMOL; COTRIMOXAZOLE; FLUDARABINE; GALLIUM; GLUCOCORTICOID; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; PREDNISOLONE; RITUXIMAB; TEMAZEPAM;

ACUTE RESPIRATORY FAILURE; AGED; ARTERIAL GAS; BRONCHIOLITIS; BRONCHOSPASM; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COUGHING; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; DRUG INDUCED DISEASE; DRUG PULSE THERAPY; DYSPNEA; EMPHYSEMA; FEMALE; FEVER; GAS EXCHANGE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOXEMIA; INTERSTITIAL PNEUMONIA; LETTER; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LUNG AUSCULTATION; LUNG INJURY; LUNG SCINTISCANNING; LUNG TOXICITY; NIGHT SWEAT; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; OPEN LUNG BIOPSY; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

AGED; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; CLADRIBINE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG DISEASES, INTERSTITIAL; LYMPHOMA, NON-HODGKIN; RESPIRATORY INSUFFICIENCY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 8344289044     PISSN: 14440903     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1445-5994.2004.00682.x     Document Type: Letter

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