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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

VI.b

Pulmonary arterial hypertension

Of the post-capillary type

Publications

Verma I, Tripathi H, Sikachi RR, Agrawal A

Pulmonary Hypertension due to Radiofrequency Catheter Ablation (RFCA) for Atrial Fibrillation: The Lungs, the Atrium or the Ventricle?

Heart, lung & circulation. 2016;25(12):1177-1183

Lu HW, Wei P, Jiang S, Gu SY, Fan LC, Liang S, Ji X, Rajbanshi B, Xu JF

Pulmonary Vein Stenosis Complicating Radiofrequency Catheter Ablation: Five Case Reports and Literature Review.

Medicine. 2015;94(34):e1346

Porres DV, Morenza OP, Pallisa E, Roque A, Andreu J, Martínez M

Learning from the pulmonary veins.

Radiographics : a review publication of the Radiological Society of North America, Inc. 2013;33(4):999-1022