Pneumonia or drug-related exogenic allergic alveolitis? Key role of anamnesis in differential diagnosis

Igor' Mikhaylovich Skipskiy; Скипский Игорь Михайлович; Nikolay Vladimirovich Efimov; Ефимов Николай Владимирович; Il'ya Izrailevich Dantsig; Данциг Илья Израилевич; Lyubov' Mikhaylovna Matyukhina; Матюхина Любовь Михайловна; Ol'ga Yakovlevna Kostina; Костина Ольга Яковлевна; I M Skipsky; Skipsky I M; N V Efimov; Efimov N V; I I Dantsig; Dantsig I I; L M Matyukhina; Matyukhina L M; O Ya Kostina; Kostina O Ya

Pneumonia or drug-related exogenic allergic alveolitis? Key role of anamnesis in differential diagnosis

Authors: Skipskiy I.M.¹, Efimov N.V.¹, Dantsig I.I.¹, Matyukhina L.M.¹, Kostina O.Y.¹, Skipsky IM², Efimov NV³, Dantsig II³, Matyukhina LM³, Kostina OY.³
Affiliations:
2. I.I. Mechnikov St-Petersburg State Medical Academy
3. Hospital of the Russian Railway Company, St-Petersburg
Issue: Vol 83, No 11 (2011)
Pages: 59-62
Section: Editorial
Submitted: 10.04.2020
Published: 15.11.2011
URL: https://ter-arkhiv.ru/0040-3660/article/view/30955
ID: 30955

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Abstract

A case is reported of an old female patient with exogenic allergic alveolitis which was first diagnosed as pneumonia progressing in the presence of long-term and intensive antibiotic treatment. Detailed analysis of the case history gave grounds for suspected drug-related exogenic allergic alveolitis. Discontinuation of antibiotics, administration of glucocorticoids and antiplatelet drugs led to recovery.