Acute eosinophilic pneumonia triggered by secondhand cigarette smoke exposure in an elderly man

Monaldi Archives for Chest Disease

Laura Malone¹  Liaqat Ali²  Montserrat Diaz-Abad³  Ashutosh Sachdeva³  Edward M. Pickering⁴ 

[1] University of Maryland Medical Center Baltimore, Maryland;University of Maryland Medical Center Midtown CampusBaltimore, Maryland;University of Maryland School of MedicineBaltimore, Maryland;University of Maryland School of MedicineBaltimore, Maryland;

关键词: acute eosinophilic pneumonia;    secondhand smoking;    bronchoalveolar lavage;    elderly;    diagnosis;   

DOI  :  10.4081/monaldi.2019.985

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

The spectrum of eosinophilic lung diseases comprises a diverse group of pulmonary disorders associated with tissue or peripheral eosinophilia. [Acute eosinophilic pneumonia (AEP)] is an uncommon eosinophilic lung disease that can be idiopathic, but identifiable causes include medications, inhalational exposures and infections. Most cases in the literature are associated with first-time cigarette smoking or resuming smoking. Herein, we present a case of AEP in an elderly man triggered by exposure to secondhand tobacco smoke, in whom a transbronchial biopsy was diagnostic. The patient recovered fully with glucocorticoid therapy without recurrence after avoiding further secondhand smoke.

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