Cardiac drugs that induce pulmonary symptoms/disease.

  • Amiodarone - pneumonitis and pulmonary fibrosis
  • Beta blockers - bronchoconstriction (especially with BB's N-Z)
  • ACE-I - dry cough (take patient off of ACE-I and put on ARB)
  • Drug induced SLE (hydralazine, INH, procainamide, etc) - pleurisy (anti-histone antibodies)
  • Aspirin - Sampter's triad (rhinitis, nasal polyps, bronchospasm/asthma; if i see nasal polyps in a question I am immediately looking for aspirin or asthma in the answer)

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  1. BernieApril 23, 2010 at 1:02 AM

    dont forget to stick Bleomycin up there with Amiodarone for pulmonary fibrosis

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