Two new cases of chronic eosinophilic pneumonia. A revision of the literature
Tordera Higón, P.; Andreu Rodríguez, A.L.; Gómez Merino, E.; Pastor Esplá, E.; Jiménez Ródena, J.; Chiner Vives, E.
Anales de Medicina Interna 21(8): 391-394
2004
ISSN/ISBN: 0212-7199 PMID: 15373723 Document Number: 580193
We present two cases of chronic eosinophilic pneumonia in two women of a seventy-seven and sixty-five years old. We revised the clinical and radiologic features, and their pathogenesis. It is necessary to recognize in a precocious time this entity and the utility of the bronchoalveolar lavage fluid in the diagnostic, for to begin a treatment with corticosteroids.