Drug-Related Pneumonitis in Patients Receiving Vedolizumab Therapy for Inflammatory Bowel Disease.

Clin Gastroenterol Hepatol

Centro Malattie Apparato Digerente, Inflammatory Bowel Disease Unit, Unità Operativa Complessa di Medicina Interna e Gastroenterologia, Dipartimento di Scienze Mediche e Chirurgiche, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario "A. Gemelli" Istituto di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico, Rome, Italy; Dipartimento Universitario di Medicina e Chirurgia Traslazionale, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy. Electronic address:

Published: June 2022

Noninfective drug-related pneumonitis (DRP) is a well-known adverse effect of several drugs: clinical manifestations have mostly an acute/subacute onset and vary from mild to life-threatening. Several DRP cases have been described in patients receiving anti-tumor necrosis factor α, rituximab, and tocilizumab. To date, only 4 reports of vedolizumab-related pneumonitis have been presented..

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cgh.2021.08.041DOI Listing

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