Severe Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome during Infliximab Therapy in a Patient with Crohn Disease.

The occurrence of a noninfectious interstitial lung disease is a rare but life-threatening side effect of infliximab, an antitumor necrosis factor alpha antibody. The following case report of a patient with Crohn disease shows an extremely dramatic progression to a severe acute respiratory distress syndrome.

Ten Years of Treatment with 400 mg Imatinib per Day in a Case of Advanced Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumor.

Imatinib mesylate, as treatment for gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GIST), has dramatically changed the prognosis for survival - not only because it is efficacious, but also because it attracted attention to this malignant disease. GIST is now a well-known disease entity and a paradigm for targeted therapies in malignant diseases. A now 74-year-old patient presented with recurrence of a primary duodenal GIST (initial diagnosis and primary resection in 1998; diameter 10 cm, KIT exon 11 mutation, PM V559D) and liver metastasis after a second surgical resection was performed in 2000.