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What are your recommendations regarding methotrexate usage in patients with persistent chest CT changes post COVID pneumonia?

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Would you use methotrexate in a patient with a moderate amount of persistent interstitial change on chest CT following COVID pneumonia (without persistent respiratory symptoms)?

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Pulmonology · Emory University School of Medicine
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With the raging pandemic and the steady stream of post-COVID inflammatory/fibrotic patients, we are bound to encounter patients with such abnormalities who are on potentially pneumotoxic drugs (or need initiation).

With minimal concrete data, any recommendation is purely based on experience.

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Rheumatology · National Psoriasis Foundation
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No.

I would use another medicine with no effect on the lungs.

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