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The Drug-Induced Respiratory Disease Website and App

Frequency - Incidence

Incidence of respiratory adverse event(s) due to the specific drug as assessed by number of reported/published cases in the literature. Red digits in stars indicate: 0 = Very rare, questionable signal · 1 = < 10 cases · 2 = 10-50 cases · 3 = 50–100 cases · 4 = 100-200 cases · 5 = >200 cases

Evidence level/grade

Evidence level for respiratory adverse event(s) due to the specific drug as estimated using Hill’s (1965), Naranjo’s (1981), and Bégaud’s (1985) criteria applied to published cases. Blue digits in stars indicate: 0 = Questionable · 1 = Low · 2 = Moderate · 3 = Robust · 4 = Definite · 5 = Unquestionable, pathognomonic

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Foreign body pulmonary vasculopathy (Excipient lung disease)

Publications

Smith KJ, Elidemir O, Dishop MK, Eldin KW, Tatevian N, Moore RH

Intravenous injection of pharmaceutical tablets presenting as multiple pulmonary nodules and declining pulmonary function in an adolescent with cystic fibrosis.

Pediatrics. 2006;118(3):e924-8

Hammar SP, Williams MG, Dodson RF

Pulmonary granulomatous vasculitis induced by insoluble particulates: a case report.

Ultrastructural pathology. 2003;27(6):439-49

Ganesan S, Felo J, Saldana M, Kalasinsky VF, Lewin-Smith MR, Tomashefski JF Jr

Embolized crospovidone (poly[N-vinyl-2-pyrrolidone]) in the lungs of intravenous drug users.

Modern pathology : an official journal of the United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology, Inc. 2003;16(4):286-92

Lemoine R, Dusmet M

Images in clinical medicine. Pulmonary granulomas in an intravenous drug user.

The New England journal of medicine. 2000;343(18):1312