title: [Lung changes in amiodarone therapy].
abstract: We describe a 59-year-old patient who was treated with amiodarone for severe ventricular arrhythmia. After a two-year period of medication the therapy had to be abandoned because of pulmonary changes on the chest X-ray that mimicked lung oedema; no other cause for the pulmonary opacities than an adverse effect of amiodarone was to be found. The radiological changes in the lungs regressed within one year with no specific therapy being administered.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Prayer
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Hübsch
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Frank
mesh_terms: D000638:Amiodarone / Q000009:adverse effects* / Q000627:therapeutic use; D001145:Arrhythmias, Cardiac / Q000188:drug therapy*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011658:Pulmonary Fibrosis / Q000139:chemically induced*
chemical_list: D000638:Amiodarone
vernacular_title: Lungenveränderungen bei Amiodarontherapie.