Pulmonary toxicity after initiation of azathioprine for treatment of interstitial pneumonia in a patient with rheumatoid arthritis

Journal of Rheumatology

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1104-1105

  Ishida, Takaaki ^a   Kotani, Takuya ^a   Takeuchi, Tohru ^a   Makino, Shigeki ^a  

^a OSAKA MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CLARITHROMYCIN; CYCLOSPORIN; KREBS VON DEN LUNGEN 6; MEROPENEM; PREDNISOLONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VORICONAZOLE;

AGED; CASE REPORT; COUGHING; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; DRUG FEVER; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; DYSPNEA; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; GROUND GLASS OPACITY; HIGH RESOLUTION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INTERSTITIAL PNEUMONIA; LETTER; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LUNG FUNCTION; LUNG INFILTRATE; LUNG TOXICITY; MALE; NEUTROPHIL COUNT; OXYGEN SATURATION; PERIPHERAL LUNG LESION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SIDE EFFECT; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; VITAL CAPACITY;

AGED; ANTIRHEUMATIC AGENTS; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; AZATHIOPRINE; DYSPNEA; HUMANS; LUNG DISEASES, INTERSTITIAL; MALE; RESPIRATORY INSUFFICIENCY;

EID: 84860756122     PISSN: 0315162X     EISSN: 14992752     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3899/jrheum.111415     Document Type: Letter

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