Beware drug-induced lung injury in MTX patients: hypersensitivity pneumonitis.(Clinical Rounds)(Methotrexate)

Publication: Skin & Allergy News

Publication Date: 01-APR-04

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SNOWMASS, COLO. -- A key task in the rheumatologic patient with respiratory symptoms is to differentiate active underlying disease from drug toxicity as the cause, according to Dr. Ulrich Specks, a pulmonologist at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn.

Far and away the most common form of drug-induced lung injury...

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