[Chronic eosinophilic pneumonia--clinical case]

Pneumologia. 2008 Apr-Jun;57(2):92-5.
[Article in Romanian]

Abstract

Eosinophilic pneumonia (EP) is a rare, heterogeneous group of respiratory diseases, characterized by eosinophilic pulmonary infiltrates, with or without peripheral blood eosinophilia. The hallmark of chronic eosinophilic pneumonia (CEP) is a massive accumulation of eosinophils in the lungs, and an increased number of eosinophils in the bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) fluid. We present the case of a 58 years-old female patient who came to the Clinical Hospital of Pneumology "Leon Daniello" from Cluj Napoca, Romania, with the suspicion of a recurrent diffuse interstitial pneumonia, despite of a proper antibiotic and symptomatic treatment. After clinical and paraclinical investigations the patient was diagnosed with idiopathic chronic eosinophilic pneumonia. Corticosteroid treatment was started, with rapid improvement in both clinical and radiographic abnormalities.

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • English Abstract

MeSH terms

  • Bronchoalveolar Lavage Fluid / immunology
  • Chronic Disease
  • Diagnosis, Differential
  • Eosinophils / immunology
  • Female
  • Glucocorticoids / therapeutic use
  • Humans
  • Middle Aged
  • Pulmonary Eosinophilia / diagnosis*
  • Pulmonary Eosinophilia / drug therapy
  • Pulmonary Eosinophilia / immunology
  • Treatment Outcome

Substances

  • Glucocorticoids