title: Asymptomatic cavitary pneumonitis due to amiodarone pulmonary toxicity.
abstract: A 52-year-old woman presented with ventricular tachycardia after receiving amiodarone for the previous 18 months. The chest roentgenogram revealed evidence of multiple pleural-based cavitary nodules despite the absence of respiratory disease on clinical examination. The nodules were attributed to amiodarone because of histologic changes noted at open-lung biopsy. The cavitating nodules cleared with the discontinuation of amiodarone.
authors.affiliation: Cardiology Division, Medicine Service, and Pathology Service of St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital and the Texas Heart Institute, Houston 77030, USA.
authors.forename: C J
authors.initials: CJ
authors.lastname: Schechter
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: O'Neill
authors.forename: H I
authors.initials: HI
authors.lastname: Schweppe
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Klima
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Treistman