Abstract
Autoimmune hepatitis and organizing pneumonia are uncommon, yet important, manifestations of drug toxicity. We describe the case of a 67-year-old woman who presented with shortness of breath shortly after completing a course of doxycycline and was incidentally found to have a prominent hepatitis. Subsequent evaluation yielded a diagnosis of doxycycline-induced autoimmune hepatitis and organizing pneumonia. This case gives credence to including drug-induced autoimmune hepatitis and organizing pneumonia in the differential for both liver injury and respiratory failure encountered in the setting of doxycycline exposure.
Original language | English (US) |
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Article number | e230375 |
Journal | Annals of Internal Medicine Clinical Cases |
Volume | 2 |
Issue number | 9 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Sep 2023 |
Keywords
- Acute liver injury
- Aminotransferases
- Autoimmune hepatitis
- Biopsy
- Doxycycline
- Drugs
- Dyspnea
- Hepatitis
- Liver
- Pneumonia
- Respiratory failure
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine
- Internal Medicine
- Clinical Biochemistry