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Hydroxyurea-induced acute alveolitis in a patient with chronic myeloid leukaemia
G H Jackson1, J Wallis, J Ledingham
1Department of Haematology, Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.
Cancer Chemotherapy and Pharmacology
|January 1, 1990
Abstract:
A number of cytotoxic agents have been implicated in the production of widespread pulmonary alveolar damage. We present a case of life-threatening alveolitis in a patient on hydroxyurea for chronic myeloid leukaemia. The clinical course suggests that the alveolitis was induced by the hydroxyurea. This is the first reported case of hydroxyurea-induced pulmonary alveolitis.