Acute Hypersensitivity Pneumonitis Associated with Carbamazepine Therapy

Acute Interstitial Pneumonitis and Carbamazepine Therapy

“…Five other cases have been reported before: four adults and one boy aged 15 years (5-9). In contrast with most other authors we did not use any steroid therapy (5,6,8,9); nevertheless we saw a striking improvement after withdrawal of carbamazepine. The marked eosinophilia in peripheral blood and bone marrow, described in some previous reports (5, 6, 8), was absent in our patient.…”

Glandular fever-like syndrome, pulmonary eosinophilia and asthma associated with carbamazepine

“…There have been only two other reports of patients treated with carbamazepine developing 0032-5473i82/0200-0100 $02.00 () 1982 The Fellowship of Postgraduate Medicine pulmonary eosinophilia and asthma (Stephen, Parks and Tempest, 1978;Tak Lee, Cochrane and Amot, 1981). Lymphadenopathy, rash and fever has been reported slightly more frequently as a side effect of carbamazepine (Virolainen, 1971;Houwerzijl et al, 1977), but hepatosplenomegaly has not been a marked feature.…”

Miscellaneous Drug-Induced Pulmonary Disease

“…There are many isolated case reports of drug-induced PIE. [127][128][129][130] There is no single recent review of these drugs. The pulmonary infiltrates produced by these drugs are more often nonmigratory, in contrast to the PIE of Löffler's penumonia.…”