A case of steroid-refractory organizing pneumonia (OP) as the initial presentation of plasma cell leukemia (PCL) in a patient who had no prior exposure to chemotherapy or radiation is described. Since OP is traditionally a steroid-responsive disease, this case raises the possibility of a previously unknown patient subgroup with variable…
Twenty medications are associated with drug-induced organizing pneumonia; however, thalidomide is not listed as a potential causative agent. Thalidomide (Thalomid, Celgene Corp., Summit, NJ), an angiogenesis inhibitor and immunomodulator that reduces tumor necrosis factor-alpha, is used for the treatment of multiple myeloma. We report a case of organizing pneumonia in…
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