Clinical Features for Gold Lung (Gold Compound Hypersensitivity Pneumonitis)
Purpose: | To identify hypersensitivity pneumonitis due to a gold compound in a patient with rheumatoid arthritis using the criteria of Evans et al. |
Specialty: | Pulmonary Disease |
Objective: | clinical diagnosis, including family history for genetics |
ICD-10: | J67.9 |
Description: | Occasionally a patient with rheumatoid arthritis who is being treated with a gold compound (chrysotherapy) will develop a hypersensitivity pneumonitis. Evans et al listed clinical findings associated with the syndrome. The authors are from Brown University and two community hospitals in Rhode Island. |
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