Acute breathlessness with frank hemoptysis following catheter ablation for atrial fibrillation, a cause not so obvious

All clinicians prescribing amiodarone require knowledge of the challenging diagnosis and management of amiodarone‐induced pulmonary toxicity (APT), which is potentially fatal. APT should be considered early in all patients presenting with new respiratory symptoms and concurrent amiodarone therapy. D...

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Autores principales: Waddingham, Peter Henry, Chow, Anthony Wai‐Cheong
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2019
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Case Reports
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6510000/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31110703
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.2082
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description All clinicians prescribing amiodarone require knowledge of the challenging diagnosis and management of amiodarone‐induced pulmonary toxicity (APT), which is potentially fatal. APT should be considered early in all patients presenting with new respiratory symptoms and concurrent amiodarone therapy. Drug cessation and corticosteroid therapy can be highly effective once recognized.
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spelling pubmed-65100002019-05-20 Acute breathlessness with frank hemoptysis following catheter ablation for atrial fibrillation, a cause not so obvious Waddingham, Peter Henry Chow, Anthony Wai‐Cheong Clin Case Rep Case Reports All clinicians prescribing amiodarone require knowledge of the challenging diagnosis and management of amiodarone‐induced pulmonary toxicity (APT), which is potentially fatal. APT should be considered early in all patients presenting with new respiratory symptoms and concurrent amiodarone therapy. Drug cessation and corticosteroid therapy can be highly effective once recognized. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2019-03-19 /pmc/articles/PMC6510000/ /pubmed/31110703 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.2082 Text en © 2019 The Authors. Clinical Case Reports published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited and is not used for commercial purposes.
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Acute breathlessness with frank hemoptysis following catheter ablation for atrial fibrillation, a cause not so obvious
title Acute breathlessness with frank hemoptysis following catheter ablation for atrial fibrillation, a cause not so obvious
title_full Acute breathlessness with frank hemoptysis following catheter ablation for atrial fibrillation, a cause not so obvious
title_fullStr Acute breathlessness with frank hemoptysis following catheter ablation for atrial fibrillation, a cause not so obvious
title_full_unstemmed Acute breathlessness with frank hemoptysis following catheter ablation for atrial fibrillation, a cause not so obvious
title_short Acute breathlessness with frank hemoptysis following catheter ablation for atrial fibrillation, a cause not so obvious
title_sort acute breathlessness with frank hemoptysis following catheter ablation for atrial fibrillation, a cause not so obvious
topic Case Reports
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6510000/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31110703
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.2082
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