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Nocardia asteroides pneumonia complicating low dose methotrexate treatment of refractory rheumatoid arthritis.

J J Cornelissen1, L J Bakker, M J Van der Veen, M Rozenberg-Arska, J W Bijlsma.   

Abstract

Low dose methotrexate is used increasingly often in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis. Severe complications due to toxicity of the lung or bone marrow occur infrequently. This report describes a 71 year old woman with longstanding rheumatoid arthritis who developed pleuritis, a pulmonary infiltrate, and pancytopenia during treatment with low dose methotrexate. Fatal respiratory insufficiency followed, and cultures from the lung after death showed Nocardia asteroides.

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Year:  1991        PMID： 1929588      PMCID： PMC1004510          DOI： 10.1136/ard.50.9.642

Source DB:  PubMed          Journal:  Ann Rheum Dis        ISSN： 0003-4967            Impact factor:   19.103


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