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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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Tuberculosis (pulmonary, pulmonary, extrapulmonary or disseminated). Reactivation or de novo

Publications

Chan MJ, Wen YH, Huang YB, Chuang HY, Tain YL, Lily Wang YC, Hsu CN

Risk of tuberculosis comparison in new users of antitumour necrosis factor-α and with existing disease-modifying antirheumatic drug therapy.

Journal of clinical pharmacy and therapeutics. 2018;43(2):256-264

Cappell MS, Saad A, Bortman JS, Amin M

Ileocolonic tuberculosis clinically, endoscopically, and radiologically mimicking Crohn's disease: disseminated infection after treatment with infliximab.

Journal of Crohn's & colitis. 2014;8(6):560-2

Brassard P, Suissa S, Kezouh A, Ernst P

Inhaled corticosteroids and risk of tuberculosis in patients with respiratory diseases.

American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine. 2011;183(5):675-8

Hernández-Cruz B, Sifuentes-Osornio J, Ponce-de-León Rosales S, Ponce-de-León Garduño A, Díaz-Jouanen E

Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection in patients with systemic rheumatic diseases. A case-series.

Clinical and experimental rheumatology. 1999;17(3):289-96

Kumar N, Govil A, Puri AS, Gulati R, Jain M, Rawal KK, Gupta R

Tuberculosis in ulcerative colitis: bird in the bush.

Tropical gastroenterology : official journal of the Digestive Diseases Foundation. 1994;15(4):219-21