Chronic eosinophilic pneumonia with atypical radiographic presentation

Respiration. 1998;65(4):323-6. doi: 10.1159/000029287.

Abstract

Chronic eosinophilic pneumonia (CEP) is a rare disease characterized by a progressive symptomatic deterioration of more than 1 month, pulmonary infiltrates with eosinophils, and a dramatic response to corticosteroid treatment. We describe a patient with CEP who presented with right upper lung infiltrates with evidence of cavitation.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Anti-Inflammatory Agents / therapeutic use
  • Chronic Disease
  • Follow-Up Studies
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Prednisolone / therapeutic use
  • Pulmonary Eosinophilia / diagnosis
  • Pulmonary Eosinophilia / diagnostic imaging*
  • Pulmonary Eosinophilia / drug therapy
  • Radiography, Thoracic
  • Respiratory Function Tests
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed
  • Treatment Outcome

Substances

  • Anti-Inflammatory Agents
  • Prednisolone