Remission and Relapse of Acute Eosinophilic Pheumonia.
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- Hoshino Jin
- Motojima General Hospital
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- Takahashi Takashi
- The Second Department of Internal Medicine, Gunma University School of Medicine
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- Aihara Toshikazu
- The Second Department of Internal Medicine, Gunma University School of Medicine
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- Takayanagi Noboru
- The Second Department of Internal Medicine, Gunma University School of Medicine
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- Other Title
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- 緩解,増悪を繰り返した好酸球性肺炎の1例
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Abstract
A 46-year-old man presented with progressive dyspnea of acute onset, nonproductive coughing, and a high fever. He had been in his usual good health until symptoms began on the previous day. The chest roentgenogram revealed Kerley A and B lines, perivascular cuffing, hilar haze, and bilateral pleural effusions. Body temperature was 37°C and PaO2 was 42 Torr. All clinical and radiographic signs improved. On the 12th hospital day, dyspnea and diffuse infiltration shadows on the chest roentgenogram suddenly occurred again. Acute eosinophilic pneumonia was strongly suspected because of increasing peripheral eosinophilia, and from the results of histologic examination of a specimen obtained by transbronchial lung biopsy. Without steroid treatment, the patient's condition gradually improved.<br>Most cases of eosinophilic pneumonia have been diagnosed as pulmonary infiltration with eosinophilia (PIE). However, this patient did not have PIE syndrome, but instead was given a diagnosis of acute eosinophilic pneumonia, which was first described in 1990. This case may help establish criteria for the diagnosis and steroid treatment of acute eosinophilic pneumonia.
Journal
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- The Japanese journal of thoracic diseases
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The Japanese journal of thoracic diseases 33 (8), 878-882, 1995
The Japanese Respiratory Society
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- CRID
- 1390001205017254272
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- NII Article ID
- 130003678865
- 10006996383
- 10008107792
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- NII Book ID
- AN00187758
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- ISSN
- 1883471X
- 03011542
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- PubMed
- 7474570
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- Text Lang
- ja
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- JaLC
- PubMed
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