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  • Title: Amiodarone-induced pulmonary toxicity.
    Author: Cazzadori A, Braggio P, Barbieri E, Ganassini A.
    Journal: Respiration; 1986; 49(2):157-60. PubMed ID: 3952381.
    Abstract:
    A patient with atrial premature depolarizations developed pulmonary toxicity during long-term treatment with amiodarone. The clinical features were cough and dyspnea. Pulmonary function tests showed a restrictive defect and severe impairment of gas transfer. Diffuse interstitial and intra-alveolar shadows were noted on chest X-ray. Lung specimens obtained by transbronchial biopsy showed hyperplasia of pneumocytes and widening of the alveolar septa. After discontinuation of amiodarone and institution of steroid therapy the patient improved symptomatically, and after 3 weeks the chest X-ray showed clearing of the bilateral infiltrates. The patient was never given any other antiarrhythmic drugs, had no important heart disease, and received the lowest daily dose of amiodarone reported in the literature of cases of pulmonary injury.
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