Drug-Induced Pulmonary Disease
DefinitionDrug-induced pulmonary disease is a lung disease caused by an adverse reaction to a medication.
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Overview, Causes, & Risk Factors
Many types of lung injury can result from medications, and it is often impossible to predict who will develop lung disease resulting from a medication or drug. The types of lung diseases which can result from medications include: allergic reactions (asthma, hypersensitivity pneumonitis, or eosinophilic pneumonia), an undesirable side effect such as coughing or bronchitis, inflammation of the lung air sacks (pneumonitis or infiltration), interstitial fibrosis (scarring), pulmonary edema, alveolar hemorrhage (bleeding into the lung air sacks), pleural effusion, lung vasculitis, mediastinal inflammation, swollen lymph nodes (lymphadenopathy), respiratory failure, granulomatous lung disease, and drug induced systemic lupus erythematosus.
Numerous drugs are known to cause lung (pulmonary) disease in some people including chemotherapy agents, certain antibiotics, illicit drugs, certain cardiovascular drugs, and many others.
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