Recurrent bilateral lung infiltrates in a patient with ulcerative colitis

Antonia Assioura; Georgia Gkrepi; Konstantinos Exarchos; Konstantinos Kostikas; Athena Gogali; Christos Kyriakopoulos

doi:10.1183/20734735.0210-2022

Recurrent bilateral lung infiltrates in a patient with ulcerative colitis

Breathe (Sheff). 2022 Dec;18(4):220210. doi: 10.1183/20734735.0210-2022. Epub 2023 Jan 10.

Authors

Antonia Assioura¹, Georgia Gkrepi¹, Konstantinos Exarchos¹, Konstantinos Kostikas¹, Athena Gogali¹, Christos Kyriakopoulos¹

Affiliation

¹ Respiratory Medicine Department, University of Ioannina Faculty of Medicine, Ioannina, Greece.

Abstract

In all cases of ILD in patients with UC, drug-induced pneumonitis should be excluded. In patients who receive both anti-TNF-α and mesalazine and develop drug-induced pneumonitis, it is quite difficult to differentiate which is the actual causing agent. https://bit.ly/3AnNJNN.

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Case Reports