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Interstitial pneumonitis induced by pegylated liposomal doxorubicin in a patient with recurrent ovarian cancer

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Interstitial pneumonitis after treatment with pegylated liposomal doxorubicin (PLD) has been rarely reported. We describe herein a case of interstitial pneumonitis in a 49-year-old woman with relapsed ovarian carcinoma treated with PLD. Twenty-five days after the second administration of PLD, she presented with fever and dry cough, and chest CT scans revealed bilateral interstitial infiltrates and ground-glass opacities. She was diagnosed to have interstitial pneumonitis induced by PLD. Steroid therapy improved her symptoms.

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  1. Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Faculty of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-8655, Japan

    Kanako Inaba, Takahide Arimoto, Mari Hoya, Kei Kawana, Shunsuke Nakagawa, Shiro Kozuma & Yuji Taketani

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Inaba, K., Arimoto, T., Hoya, M. et al. Interstitial pneumonitis induced by pegylated liposomal doxorubicin in a patient with recurrent ovarian cancer. Med Oncol 29, 1255–1257 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12032-011-9893-0

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