Organizing Pneumonia Associated with Pegylated Interferon α and Ribavirin Therapy

Table 1

Summary of published case reports in English language of organizing pneumonia associated with IFN-alfa and ribavirin in chronic hepatitis C.

Author (year)	Cases	Age/sex	Type of IFN	Combination with ribavirin	Duration of therapy (weeks)	Outcome	Genotype	Reference
Ogata et al. (1994)	1	64/m	IFN α-2b	No	11	Resolved with treatment	Unknown	[5]
Kumar et al. (2002)	2	50/f	IFN α-2b	Yes	24	Resolved without treatment	1b	[4]
		41/f	IFN α-2b	Yes	10	Resolved without treatment	Unknown
Crespi et al. (2008)	1	63/m	PEG-IFN alfa-2a	Yes	8	Resolved with treatment	2a/2c	[6]
Vila et al. (2008)	1	49/m	PEG-IFN alfa-2b	Yes	24	Resolved with treatment	1b	[7]
Martins et al. (2012)	1	67/f	PEG-IFN alfa-2a	Yes	36	Resolved with treatment	1b	[8]
Current case	1	65/m	PEG-IFN alfa-2a	Yes	36	Improved with treatment	Unknown