Lung disease/pneumonitis in a patient with ulcerative colitis due to mesalazine

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Mesalazine is a main medicine for treatment of ulcerative colitis. Most patience of left-sides and total colitis receive oral mesalazine for many years. Currently, there is a little information about the tolerability and safety of long-term use of mesalazine. The eosinophilic pneumonia, organizing pneumonia, and nonspecific interstitial pneumonia are very rare adverse effects of ulcerative colitis treatment with mesalazine. The article presents case of the development interstitial lung disease induced by mesalazine under long-term maintenance treatment for three years in the young patient with ulcerative colitis. It shows the difficulties in diagnosing this disease due to the work-long low-grade fever in manifestation of pneumonitis, the similarity of clinical and radiological manifestations (diffuse bilateral pattern in chest imaging). The article demonstrates the limitations of modern laboratory and instrumental diagnostic methods for the differentiation of disseminated lesions of the lung tissue, and shows the importance of elimination treatment of mesalazine-induced pneumonitis.

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O. A. Sablin

Nikiforov Russian Center of Emergency and Radiation Medicine

Email: vervlaber@gmail.com
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-2597-1220

д.м.н., проф., зав. клиническим отд. терапии и профпатологии

Russian Federation, Saint Petersburg

V. V. Chernousova

Nikiforov Russian Center of Emergency and Radiation Medicine

Author for correspondence.
Email: vervlaber@gmail.com
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-6798-1857

врач-терапевт отд-ния терапии клинического отд. терапии и профпатологии

Russian Federation, Saint Petersburg

A. D. Komlev

Nikiforov Russian Center of Emergency and Radiation Medicine

Email: vervlaber@gmail.com
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-6929-4073

к.м.н., доц., зав. клиническим отд. пульмонологии и аллергологии

Saint Petersburg

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2. Fig. 1. Results of MSCT of the chest organs of patient S. upon admission to the department: a - cut of the lungs (887 mm), with a focus of the upper lobe measuring 29 × 52 mm; b - cut at the level of 902 mm; c - at the level of 911 mm; d - at the level of 948 mm.

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3. Fig. 2. Results of MSCT of the chest organs of patient C. 7 days after discontinuation of mesalazine: a - 887 mm cut; b - 902 mm.

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