RESEARCH ARTICLE
A Patient with Everolimus-Associated Pneumonitis
Christopher D. Intemannand1, Gerhard W. Goerres2, *
1 Institute of Diagnostic Radiology, Departments of Radiology, University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
2 Institute for Medical Radiology, Buergerspital Solothurn, Solothurn, Switzerland
Article Information
Identifiers and Pagination:
Year: 2009Volume: 3
First Page: 28
Last Page: 30
Publisher Id: TOMIJ-3-28
Article History:
Received Date: 27/6/2009Revision Received Date: 7/8/2009
Acceptance Date: 13/10/2009
Electronic publication date: 11/12/2009
Collection year: 2009
© 2009 Intemann and Goerres;
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open-access license: This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0), a copy of which is available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode. This license permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Abstract
Interstitial pneumonitis has been observed as adverse effect in patients under immunosuppressive treatment with Sirolimus. Everolimus is the successor of Sirolimus and complications are less known. We report a case of pneumonitis that was observed in a patient with a kidney transplant and immunosuppression by Everolimus. The patient recovered after Everolimus was suspended, suggesting that it causes interstitial pneumonitis similar to Sirolimus
