Pneumonitis

Pneumonitis

Desquamative interstitial pneumonitis vs usual interstitial pneumonitis.

My colleague and collaborator, the late Edgar G. Harrison, Jr., M.D., was of the opinion that “desquamation” was a fundamental phenomenon in the spectrum of usual interstitial pneumonitis. In our report’ on classic interstitial pneumonitis-flbrosis, we found that almost two-thirds of our biopsies revealed this finding. Harrison believed that the designation, “desquamative interstitial pneurnoni...

Desquamative Interstitial Pneumonitis vs Usual Interstitial Pneumonitis

My colleague and collaborator, the late Edgar G. Harrison, Jr., M.D., was of the opinion that “desquamation” was a fundamental phenomenon in the spectrum of usual interstitial pneumonitis. In our report’ on classic interstitial pneumonitis-flbrosis, we found that almost two-thirds of our biopsies revealed this finding. Harrison believed that the designation, “desquamative interstitial pneurnoni...

Acute Pneumonitis

During the past seven years several reports of an acute type of pulmonary infection, characterized by an onset with headache, malaise, and mild cough and by a febrile course of about a week's duration, with a minimum of adventitious signs on examination of the chest, little or no leukocytosis or sputum, and x-ray signs of evidence of pulmonary infection far out of proportion to the patient's cl...

Amiodarone pneumonitis.

Amiodarone is an iodinated benzofuran derivative that is widely used for the treatment of cardiac arrhythmia. The drug has an extensive adverse effect profile that involves the liver, thyroid, cornea, skin, lung, bone marrow, and neuromuscular system. Pulmonary toxicity is the most serious adverse reaction, and it often limits the drug’s clinical use.1,2 We encountered a patient with suspected ...