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Constrictive bronchiolitis obliterans following gold therapy for psoriatic arthritis
K J Schwartzman1, D M Bowie, C Yeadon
1Dept of Medicine, Royal Victoria Hospital, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
The European Respiratory Journal
|December 1, 1995
Abstract:
A 41 year old male with psoriatic arthritis developed progressive dyspnoea and airflow obstruction following 4 months of intramuscular gold therapy. Open lung biopsy revealed bronchiolitis obliterans of the constrictive type. This case suggests a possible aetiological role for gold in the pathogenesis of constrictive bronchiolitis obliterans, or alternatively an association between psoriatic arthritis and this inflammatory airway condition.