Year 2022 / Volume 114 / Number 7
Letter
Mesalazine induced interstitial pneumonitis in the COVID era

429-430

DOI: 10.17235/reed.2022.8635/2021

Ana Aparicio Serrano, Elma Gallego Jiménez, Javier Castro Rodríguez, Pilar Soto Escribano, Eva Iglesias Flores, Sandra Marín Pedrosa, José Manuel Benítez,

Abstract
Mesalazine is the most widely used aminosalicylate for induction and maintenance of remission in patients with mild-to-moderate ulcerative colitis (UC). Drug-induced hypersensitivity pneumonitis is considered very rare (<1/10.000 patients). Due to its rarity and the scarce cases reported, mesalazine-induced lung injury needs to be highly suspected in a patient with onset of respiratory symptoms and UC under treatment with salicylates. It should make the clinician formulate a differential diagnosis that includes not only infections (tuberculosis, bacterial...) or the inflammatory bowel disease itself, but also the current coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) since their clinical and radiological manifestations may be very similar.
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Aparicio Serrano A, Gallego Jiménez E, Castro Rodríguez J, Soto Escribano P, Iglesias Flores E, Marín Pedrosa S, et all. Mesalazine induced interstitial pneumonitis in the COVID era. 8635/2021


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Received: 22/01/2022

Accepted: 01/02/2022

Online First: 18/02/2022

Published: 07/07/2022

Article Online First time: 27 days

Article editing time: 166 days


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