The Drug-Induced Respiratory Disease Website
Can be uni- or bilateral. Pneumomediastinum can be present as an associated finding. Pneumothorax can develop as a complication of drug-induced pleural fibrosis or fibroelastosis (see under IV c) and it can difficult to treat as the lung may reexpand poorly. Pneumothorax can also occur as a complication of drug-induced cavitation or thinning of pulmonary tumors including metastases (See XIu). The association with therapy with drugs is confounded by indication (PMID 23801882) as pneumothorax can also occur idiopathically. Novel targeted agents may cause tumor necrosis, cavitation of metastatic lung nodules and difficult-to-treat pneumothorax
Publications
Pneumothorax Following Acupuncture.
Cureus 2021 Mar 31;13;e14207 — 2021 Mar 31 — e14207
Incidence of iatrogenic pneumothorax following acupuncture treatments in Taiwan.
Acupuncture in medicine : journal of the British Medical Acupuncture Society 2019 Dec;37;332-339 — 2019 Dec — 332-339
Traumatic Pneumothorax Secondary to Acupuncture Needling.
Cureus 2018 Aug 23;10;e3194 — 2018 Aug 23 — e3194
Autopsy diagnosis of acupuncture-induced bilateral tension pneumothorax using whole-body postmortem computed tomography: A case report.
Medicine 2018 Nov;97;e13059 — 2018 Nov — e13059
Traumatic Pneumothorax Following Acupuncture: A Case Series.
Clinical practice and cases in emergency medicine 2017 Mar;1;31-32 — 2017 Mar — 31-32
Bilateral tension pneumothorax after acupuncture.
BMJ case reports 2018 Apr 19;2018; — 2018 Apr 19
Delayed recognition of an uncommon cause of iatrogenic pneumothorax.
Journal of bronchology & interventional pulmonology 2015 Apr;22;162-4 — 2015 Apr — 162-4
The acupunctured lung.
The American journal of emergency medicine 2014 Jan;32;111.e1 — 2014 Jan — 111.e1
Sonographic diagnosis of bilateral pneumothorax following an acupuncture session.
Journal of clinical ultrasound : JCU 2014 Jan;42;27-9 — 2014 Jan — 27-9