
Clinical Features of Amiodarone Pulmonary Toxicity
Purpose: | To identify a patient with amiodarone pulmonary toxicity. |
Specialty: | Pulmonology Clinical Pharmacology |
Objective: | clinical diagnosis, including family history for genetics |
ICD-10: | J70.2, J70.3, J70.4 |
Description: | Amiodarone pulmonary toxicity may vary from insidious to acute and from mild to life-threatening. It is associated with amiodarone's ability to cause drug-induced phospholpidosis. |
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