RT Journal Article SR Electronic T1 Bronchiolitis obliterans organising pneumonia in patients taking acebutolol or amiodarone. JF Thorax JO Thorax FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd and British Thoracic Society SP 711 OP 715 DO 10.1136/thx.44.9.711 VO 44 IS 9 A1 P Camus A1 J N Lombard A1 M Perrichon A1 F Piard A1 J C Guérin A1 F B Thivolet A1 L Jeannin YR 1989 UL http://thorax.bmj.com/content/44/9/711.abstract AB Two patients, treated with acebutolol and amiodarone respectively, developed a disease clinically, radiologically, and pathologically indistinguishable from bronchiolitis obliterans organising pneumonia. In one case recovery followed discontinuation of acebutolol; in the other case cessation of amiodarone had no effect, and corticosteroids were required. In addition to these patients, several cases of bronchiolitis obliterans organising pneumonia have been reported during treatment with gold salts, amiodarone, and miscellaneous other drugs. Taken together, this information supports the view that bronchiolitis obliterans organising pneumonia may be a form of response by the lungs to insult by drugs.