著者
Iwao Shimomura Mitsuhiro Abe Yu Li Kenji Tsushima Seiichiro Sakao Nobuhiro Tanabe Masatomi Ikusaka Koichiro Tatsumi
出版者
The Japanese Society of Internal Medicine
雑誌
Internal Medicine (ISSN:09182918)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.58, no.7, pp.965-968, 2019-04-01 (Released:2019-04-01)
参考文献数
15
被引用文献数
7 8

The patient was a 71-year-old man with severe idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) and who demonstrated a slow deterioration of his respiratory condition. After nintedanib administration, his forced vital capacity and chest high-resolution computed tomography (HRCT) findings were stable, but his dyspnea on exertion were worsened. He was diagnosed with pulmonary hypertension (PH) by right heart catheterization (mean pulmonary arterial pressure: 30 mmHg). In this case, we suspected that nintedanib caused his PH, as his IPF had not progressed.