TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - Drug-Induced Pulmonary Disease Due to Nonchemotherapeutic Agents A1 - Cain, Hilary C. A2 - Grippi, Michael A. A2 - Elias, Jack A. A2 - Fishman, Jay A. A2 - Kotloff, Robert M. A2 - Pack, Allan I. A2 - Senior, Robert M. A2 - Siegel, Mark D. Y1 - 2015 N1 - T2 - Fishman's Pulmonary Diseases and Disorders, 5e AB - Drugs have long been recognized as having the potential to cause pulmonary injury. The precise incidence of drug-induced lung disease is difficult to ascertain, because the signs and symptoms of disease are shared by many other pulmonary conditions and diseases. An analysis of a database of approximately 9 million patients from the United Kingdom describes an incidence density of 0.7 per 100,0000 patient years for interstitial disease related to drugs over a 12-year period (1997–2008).1 These data reflect only a portion of the impact of drug-induced respiratory disease, because the alveoli, upper and lower airways, pleura, pulmonary vasculature, muscles of respiration, and the central nervous system governing respiratory control are all susceptible to injury from ingested, inhaled, and parenterally administered agents. As the categories and varieties of therapeutic drugs continue to increase, clinicians will encounter disease from new culprit drugs in addition to well-established drug reactions. Web-based data repositories, such as www.pneumotox.com, can serve as useful tools for the clinician, as they provide frequent updates based on the emerging literature on drug toxicities. SN - PB - McGraw-Hill Education CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/04/24 UR - accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1122361853 ER -