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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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Opportunistic pulmonary/systemic infections

Publications

Darley D, Lowinger D, Plit M

Laryngeal aspergilloma: a complication of inhaled fluticasone therapy for asthma.

Respirology case reports. 2014;2(4):123-5

Ruiz García V, Compte Torrero L

[Risk of pneumonia with inhaled corticosteroids for stable chronic obstructive pulmonary disease patients].

Medicina clinica. 2011;137(7):302-4

Crim C, Calverley PM, Anderson JA, Celli B, Ferguson GT, Jenkins C, Jones PW, Willits LR, Yates JC, Vestbo J

Pneumonia risk in COPD patients receiving inhaled corticosteroids alone or in combination: TORCH study results.

The European respiratory journal. 2009;34(3):641-7

Drummond MB, Dasenbrook EC, Pitz MW, Murphy DJ, Fan E

Inhaled corticosteroids in patients with stable chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

JAMA. 2008;300(20):2407-16

Peter E, Bakri F, Ball DM, Cheney RT, Segal BH

Invasive pulmonary filamentous fungal infection in a patient receiving inhaled corticosteroid therapy.

Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America. 2002;35(5):e54-6

Leav BA, Fanburg B, Hadley S

Invasive pulmonary aspergillosis associated with high-dose inhaled fluticasone.

The New England journal of medicine. 2000;343(8):586