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Insidious Onset of Amiodarone Pulmonary Toxicity Presented with Hemoptysis

Hearn Kook Kim, Bock Hyun Jung, Kun Han, Jung Won Hwang, Young Ju Cho, Yong Jin Park, Hyoung Jung Jung, Mi Hye Kim, Dae Sik Ryu, Gil Hyun Kang

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Amiodarone is widely used to control fatal arrhythmia.However, amiodarone therapy is associated with a relatively high incidence of pulmonary toxicity, up to 5 to 10%.Typical symptoms are nonspecific and often manifest as nonproductive cough, dyspnea and interstitial infiltrates in patients with acute pneumonitis or chronic fibrosis.However, hemoptysis is a very rare symptom of amiodarone pulmonary toxicity.We report a case of amiodarone pulmonary toxicity, who presented with hemoptysis and was successfully treated with the cessation of amiodarone, with review of the relevant literature.(

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Amiodarone is widely used to control fatal arrhythmia.However, amiodarone therapy is associated with a relatively high incidence of pulmonary toxicity, up to 5 to 10%.Typical symptoms are nonspecific and often manifest as nonproductive cough, dyspnea and interstitial infiltrates in patients with acute pneumonitis or chronic fibrosis.However, hemoptysis is a very rare symptom of amiodarone pulmonary toxicity.We report a case of amiodarone pulmonary toxicity, who presented with hemoptysis and was successfully treated with the cessation of amiodarone, with review of the relevant literature.(

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Amiodarone is widely used to control fatal arrhythmia.However, amiodarone therapy is associated with a relatively high incidence of pulmonary toxicity, up to 5 to 10%.Typical symptoms are nonspecific and often manifest as nonproductive cough, dyspnea and interstitial infiltrates in patients with acute pneumonitis or chronic fibrosis.However, hemoptysis is a very rare symptom of amiodarone pulmonary toxicity.We report a case of amiodarone pulmonary toxicity, who presented with hemoptysis and was successfully treated with the cessation of amiodarone, with review of the relevant literature.(

Key concepts: Amiodarone, Medicine, Pulmonary toxicity, Pneumonitis, Toxicity, Pulmonary fibrosis, Interstitial pneumonitis, Lung

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