A rare case of nitrofurantoin‐induced acute lung injury

Nitrofurantoin is a common treatment for urinary tract infections. Acute lung injury resulting from nitrofurantoin is a rare, life‐threatening complication with women being at greater risk. Symptoms include respiratory distress with fevers, rash, eosinophilia, and new‐onset atrial fibrillation. Trea...

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Autores principales: Karmali, Rehan, Stawitzky, Kyle, Srisethnil, Isrin, Simpson, Kaitlyn
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2020
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Case Reports
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7562842/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33088545
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.3314
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description Nitrofurantoin is a common treatment for urinary tract infections. Acute lung injury resulting from nitrofurantoin is a rare, life‐threatening complication with women being at greater risk. Symptoms include respiratory distress with fevers, rash, eosinophilia, and new‐onset atrial fibrillation. Treatment includes discontinuing the drug and possibly glucocorticoids for persistent oxygen demand.
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spelling pubmed-75628422020-10-20 A rare case of nitrofurantoin‐induced acute lung injury Karmali, Rehan Stawitzky, Kyle Srisethnil, Isrin Simpson, Kaitlyn Clin Case Rep Case Reports Nitrofurantoin is a common treatment for urinary tract infections. Acute lung injury resulting from nitrofurantoin is a rare, life‐threatening complication with women being at greater risk. Symptoms include respiratory distress with fevers, rash, eosinophilia, and new‐onset atrial fibrillation. Treatment includes discontinuing the drug and possibly glucocorticoids for persistent oxygen demand. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2020-09-16 /pmc/articles/PMC7562842/ /pubmed/33088545 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.3314 Text en © 2020 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/4.0/ License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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