Asymptomatic cavitary pneumonitis due to amiodarone pulmonary toxicity.
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.
Schechter
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Cardiology Division, Medicine Service, and Pathology Service of St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital and the Texas Heart Institute, Houston 77030, USA.
O'Neill
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Schweppe
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Klima
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Treistman
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