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- A 68-year-old man who has a heart condition called cardiac sarcoidosis was getting treated with a medicine called methotrexate.
- He started having trouble breathing and felt dizzy, so doctors ran some tests.
- The tests showed that the medicine was causing problems in his lungs, but this got better when they stopped the methotrexate. This is the first time they found this kind of lung reaction using a special scan called FDG-PET/CT.
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This is the case of a 68-year-old man with known cardiac sarcoidosis undergoing treatment with methotrexate who presented with new onset of dyspnea and lipothymia. FDG-PET/CT revealed pathological uptake within lung parenchyma which resolved following discontinuation of methotrexate, compatible with methotrexate-induced pneumonitis. This is the first case of methotrexate-induced pneumonitis documented by FDG-PET/CT.
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