Drug induced pneumonitis
Drug-induced lung disease can result from a number of agents and may have a myriad of presentations, ranging from an adult respiratory distress syndrome type picture to established pulmonary fibrosis.
Due to this, it can be extremely difficult to pinpoint the offending agent on imaging appearances alone and correlation with the medical history is mandatory.
Pathology
Etiology
Chemotherapy agents
These can give several patterns of disease which include :
- interstitial fibrosis: typically NSIP pattern
- hypersensitivity pneumonitis pattern
- adult respiratory distress syndrome / diffuse alveolar damage pattern
- bronchiolitis obliterans organizing pneumonia type pattern
- pulmonary hemorrhage
Example agents include:
- bleomycin lung toxicity
- busulfan lung toxicity
- carmustine lung toxicity
- chlorambucil lung toxicity
- cyclophosphamide toxicity
- docetaxel induced interstitial pneumonitis
- gemcitabine lung toxicity
- melphalan associated pulmonary toxicity
- methotrexate lung disease
- paclitaxel lung toxicity
- pemtrexed - pemtrexed induced pneumonitis
- thalidomide-induced interstitial pneumonitis
Immunosuppressive agents
- sirolimus: sirolimus-associated pulmonary toxicity
- leflunomide (arava): leflunomide-induced acute interstitial pneumonia
- sulfasalazine lung toxicity
Immunotherapy agents
Immune checkpoint inhibitor therapy-related pneumonitis / immune-mediated pneumonitis usually happens between 8 to 14 weeks after the start of treatment . Examples of agents include:
- nivolumab
- pembrolizumab
- pembrolizumab-induced sarcoid-like reaction
- pembrolizumab-induced pneumonitis
- ipilimumab
Cardiovascular agents
- amiodarone lung toxicity
Antibiotic agents
Can also give similar patterns to that of chemotherapeutic agents.
Examples include:
- nitrofurantoin lung toxicity
- amphotericin B lung toxicity
- sulfonamide lung toxicity
Anti-inflammatory agents
- gold-induced lung toxicity
Recreational drugs
- IV methylphenidate (Ritalin lung): panacinar emphysema
- IV heroin : pulmonary edema, pulmonary hemorrhage, eosinophilic pneumonia
- IV cocaine: pulmonary edema
- vaping associated lung disease
Anticonvulsants
- phenytoin: eosinophilic pneumonia
Others
Accidental inhalation or ingestion of various agents:
- herbicides
- paraquat (N,N′-dimethyl-4,4′-bipyridinium dichloride): paraquat-induced lung disease
Siehe auch:
- Kryptogene organisierende Pneumonie (COP)
- Hypersensitivitätspneumonitis
- Lungenfibrose
- acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS)
- Lungenblutung
- non specific interstitial pneumonia (NSIP)
- Ritalinlunge
- Bleomycin induzierte Pneumonitis
- pleuroparenchymale Fibroelastose
- Methotrexat induzierte Pneumonitis
- Amiodaronlunge
- paraquat induced lung disease
- diffuser Alveolarschaden
- pan acinar emphysema