Methotrexate pneumonitis after systemic treatment for ectopic pregnancy - 10/09/11
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Pneumonitis is an infrequent complication of methotrexate therapy. Described is a case of pneumonitis after treatment of an ectopic pregnancy. A 20-year-old white woman, gravida 3, para 0, ectopic pregnancy 2, was treated for her third ectopic pregnancy with 88 mg (50 mg/m2) of intramuscular methotrexate. Four days later acute dyspnea, tachypnea, fever, patchy infiltrates on chest x-ray films, and a Po2 of 30 mm Hg developed. Respiratory distress resolved over 48 hours. Pneumonitis should be suspected in any patient treated with methotrexate who has unexplained dyspnea. (Am J Obstet Gynecol 1997;176:714-5.)
Le texte complet de cet article est disponible en PDF.Keywords : Methotrexate, pneumonitis, ectopic pregnancy
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 | From the Department of Obstetrics and GynecologyaDivisions of Gynecologic OncologybMaternal Fetal Medicine.c |
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Vol 176 - N° 3
P. 714-715 - mars 1997 Retour au numéro
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