A 32-year-old man with persistent cough, shortness of breath, eosinophilic pneumonia, and peripheral blood eosinophilia. Myeloid neoplasm associated with eosinophilia and platelet-derived growth factor receptor-alpha rearrangement

Chest. 2012 Dec;142(6):1680-1683. doi: 10.1378/chest.12-0652.
No abstract available

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Antineoplastic Agents / therapeutic use
  • Benzamides
  • Bone Marrow Neoplasms / complications*
  • Bone Marrow Neoplasms / drug therapy
  • Cough / drug therapy
  • Cough / etiology*
  • Dyspnea / drug therapy
  • Dyspnea / etiology*
  • Eosinophilia / drug therapy
  • Eosinophilia / etiology*
  • Gene Rearrangement / genetics*
  • Humans
  • Imatinib Mesylate
  • Male
  • Oncogene Proteins, Fusion / genetics
  • Piperazines / therapeutic use
  • Pulmonary Eosinophilia / drug therapy
  • Pulmonary Eosinophilia / etiology*
  • Pyrimidines / therapeutic use
  • Receptor, Platelet-Derived Growth Factor alpha / genetics*
  • Steroids / therapeutic use
  • Treatment Outcome
  • mRNA Cleavage and Polyadenylation Factors / genetics

Substances

  • Antineoplastic Agents
  • Benzamides
  • Oncogene Proteins, Fusion
  • Piperazines
  • Pyrimidines
  • Steroids
  • mRNA Cleavage and Polyadenylation Factors
  • Imatinib Mesylate
  • FIP1L1-PDGFRA fusion protein, human
  • Receptor, Platelet-Derived Growth Factor alpha