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[Recurrent hemoptysis following thienopyridines and amiodarone administration. therapeutic dilemma]
Waldemar Elikowski1, Szczepan Cofta, Adam Nowicki
1Oddzial Chorób Wewnetrznych Szpitala Miejskiego ZOZ Poznań-Nowe Miasto. welikowski@wp.pl
Abstract:
The authors describe a case of a 74-year-old man with advanced coronary heart disease in whom pulmonary hemorrhagic complications during therapy with ticlopidine and subsequently with clopidogrel and amiodarone were observed. Fever and massive hemoptysis following five days of ticlopidine treatment, before elective coronary angiography, were noticed. Transient interstitial X-ray changes of the right lung were visible. Three months later a new episode on the third day of clopidogrel administration was manifested. He was after PCI, performed because of ACS complicated with ventricular fibrillation. Two days following clopidogrel discontinuation hemoptysis remitted but after ten days occurred again (this time with bilateral X-ray changes). Amiodarone, given after VF, was stopped. Spectacular improvement with steroid treatment was observed. Indobufen (reversible COX- 1 inhibitor) as an antiplatelet therapy was availed. The authors discuss therapeutic dilemma concerning the patient with coexisting different diseases.
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