title: A case series of patients on chemotherapy with dyspnoea and pulmonary infiltrates.
abstract: Clinicians often assume that patients who develop pulmonary symptoms and radiographic infiltrates while receiving cytotoxic chemotherapy have opportunistic pulmonary infection or chemotherapy-related interstitial lung disease. We describe two cases of rare complications of commonly used chemotherapeutic agents (gemcitabine-induced eosinophilic pneumonia and rituximab-induced hypersensitivity pneumonitis) that vindicate this assumption but a third case of scleroderma-associated interstitial lung disease that became clinically manifest in a patient who was receiving chemotherapy. The latter case highlights the need for vigilance for other causes of interstitial lung disease in patients receiving chemotherapy.
authors.affiliation: Department of Respiratory Medicine, Mercy University Hospital, Cork, Ireland.
authors.forename: Khalil
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Ullah
authors.forename: Aine
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: O'Reilly
authors.forename: Derek G
authors.initials: DG
authors.lastname: Power
authors.forename: Terence M
authors.initials: TM
authors.lastname: O'Connor
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D004417:Dyspnea / Q000150:complications*; D006801:Humans; D017563:Lung Diseases, Interstitial / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000188:drug therapy*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed