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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Kono, Masakazu
• Hirota, Kousuke
• Yokoe, Ayako
• Koumura, Chie
• Sakai, Toshihiko
• Tojima, Hirokazu

Titel

Wandering Pneumonia Caused by Dabigatran

Ist Teil von

• Internal Medicine, 2014, Vol.53(16), pp.1825-1827

Ort / Verlag

Japan: The Japanese Society of Internal Medicine

Erscheinungsjahr

2014

Quelle

MEDLINE

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• We herein describe the case of a 74-year-old man who experienced pulmonary consolidation and chest pain following administration of dabigatran, a novel oral anticoagulant. The consolidation settled spontaneously in another lung area, a condition sometimes referred to as "wandering pneumonia." Although we did not find specific pathological evidence of interstitial lung disease on transbronchial lung biopsy, a lung opacity spontaneously disappeared following discontinuance of dabigatran, and there was no recurrence. There are no other reports of dabigatran-induced lung injury, except alveolar hemorrhage and eosinophilic pneumonia. We should consider that any novel drug could cause various types of pulmonary injuries.