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Relapsing acute respiratory failure induced by minocycline
Mauro Oddo1, Lucas Liaudet, Mattia Lepori
1Critical Care Division, Department of Internal Medicine, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, Lausanne, Switzerland.
Chest
|June 11, 2003
Abstract:
The antibiotic minocycline, which is used in the treatment of acne, has been associated with various pulmonary complications such as pulmonary lupus and hypersensitivity pneumonitis. We now report a particularly severe case of minocycline-related pulmonary toxicity that was characterized by a relapsing form of hypersensitivity eosinophilic pneumonia complicated by acute respiratory failure.