The Drug-Induced Respiratory Disease Website
May develop as a consequence of drug-induced ventilatory depression (see under IXd) (PMID 25076409) or pharyngeal dysmotility (PMID 27191923). May cause ARDS. Aspiration of food, pneumonia, lung abscess and empyema may occur as a complication of gastric banding (PMID 22673900). Drugs can erroneously access the tracheobronchial tree and lung causing a lung reaction (PMID 23147337), granulomas or the pill aspiration syndrome (PMID 8181371, 11948075, 23918109). Milk aspiration in children can be evidenced bys specific milk protein staining (PMID 20717909)
Publications
Lipoid Pneumonia Associated with Polyethylene Glycol Chronic Aspiration.
American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine 2023 Apr 15;207;e71-e72 — 2023 Apr 15 — e71-e72
Aspiration pneumonitis caused by polyethylene glycol-electrolyte solution treated with conservative management.
Case reports in pediatrics 2014;2014;872634 — 2014 — 872634