Pulmonary & Respiratory Medicine

Ana Vigário

Publications

• Case Report
  Amiodarone Induced Organizing Pneumonia: A Masquerader of Community Acquired Pneumonia
  Author(s): Ana Vigário and Catarina MendonçaAna Vigário and Catarina Mendonça
  
  Amiodarone is a widely used antiarrhythmic with well-known adverse effects, being pulmonary toxicity one of the most serious, occurring even with low doses. Amiodarone-induced organizing pneumonia (AIOP) is an infrequent histopathological presentation but a few cases have been reported in the literature. A 78-year-old woman with atrial fibrillation doing amiodarone 200 mg once daily for two years was admitted to the Emergency Department with progressive dyspnea to rest, productive purulent cough, flulike symptoms and pleuritic chest pain. Blood tests revealed a hypoxemic respiratory failure and a systemic inflammatory response, and the chest radiography showed bilateral, multifocal pulmonary infiltrates. Microbiologic studies of urine, blood and sputum were sterile. The patient was initially treated for community acquir.. Read More»
  DOI: 10.4172/2161-105X.1000319

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