Severe Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome during Infliximab Therapy in a Patient with Crohn Disease

Abstract

The occurrence of a noninfectious interstitial lung disease is a rare but life-threatening side effect of infliximab, an antitumor necrosis factor alpha antibody. The following case report of a patient with Crohn disease shows an extremely dramatic progression to a severe acute respiratory distress syndrome.

Keywords

• Infliximab
• Crohn disease
• Acute respiratory distress syndrome
• Noninfectious interstitial lung disease