Eosinophilic infiltrate in a patient with severe Legionella pneumonia as a levofloxacin-related complication: a case report

INTRODUCTION: Legionella pneumonia can appear with different levels of severity and it can often present with complications such as acute respiratory distress syndrome. CASE PRESENTATION: We report the case of a 44-year-old Caucasian man with Legionella pneumonia with successive development of sever...

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Autores principales: Facciolongo, Nicola, Menzella, Francesco, Castagnetti, Claudia, Cavazza, Alberto, Piro, Roberto, Carbonelli, Cristiano, Zucchi, Luigi
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2010
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2993722/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21070648
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1752-1947-4-360
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author Facciolongo, Nicola
Menzella, Francesco
Castagnetti, Claudia
Cavazza, Alberto
Piro, Roberto
Carbonelli, Cristiano
Zucchi, Luigi
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Menzella, Francesco
Castagnetti, Claudia
Cavazza, Alberto
Piro, Roberto
Carbonelli, Cristiano
Zucchi, Luigi
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description INTRODUCTION: Legionella pneumonia can appear with different levels of severity and it can often present with complications such as acute respiratory distress syndrome. CASE PRESENTATION: We report the case of a 44-year-old Caucasian man with Legionella pneumonia with successive development of severe acute respiratory distress syndrome. During his stay in intensive care the clinical and radiological situation of the previously observed acute respiratory distress syndrome unexpectedly worsened due to acute pulmonary eosinophilic infiltrate of iatrogenic origin. CONCLUSION: Levofloxacin treatment caused the occurrence of acute eosinophilic infiltrate. Diagnosis was possible following bronchoscopic examination using bronchoaspirate and transbronchial biopsy.
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spelling pubmed-29937222010-11-30 Eosinophilic infiltrate in a patient with severe Legionella pneumonia as a levofloxacin-related complication: a case report Facciolongo, Nicola Menzella, Francesco Castagnetti, Claudia Cavazza, Alberto Piro, Roberto Carbonelli, Cristiano Zucchi, Luigi J Med Case Reports Case Report INTRODUCTION: Legionella pneumonia can appear with different levels of severity and it can often present with complications such as acute respiratory distress syndrome. CASE PRESENTATION: We report the case of a 44-year-old Caucasian man with Legionella pneumonia with successive development of severe acute respiratory distress syndrome. During his stay in intensive care the clinical and radiological situation of the previously observed acute respiratory distress syndrome unexpectedly worsened due to acute pulmonary eosinophilic infiltrate of iatrogenic origin. CONCLUSION: Levofloxacin treatment caused the occurrence of acute eosinophilic infiltrate. Diagnosis was possible following bronchoscopic examination using bronchoaspirate and transbronchial biopsy. BioMed Central 2010-11-11 /pmc/articles/PMC2993722/ /pubmed/21070648 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1752-1947-4-360 Text en Copyright ©2010 Facciolongo et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
spellingShingle Case Report
Facciolongo, Nicola
Menzella, Francesco
Castagnetti, Claudia
Cavazza, Alberto
Piro, Roberto
Carbonelli, Cristiano
Zucchi, Luigi
Eosinophilic infiltrate in a patient with severe Legionella pneumonia as a levofloxacin-related complication: a case report
title Eosinophilic infiltrate in a patient with severe Legionella pneumonia as a levofloxacin-related complication: a case report
title_full Eosinophilic infiltrate in a patient with severe Legionella pneumonia as a levofloxacin-related complication: a case report
title_fullStr Eosinophilic infiltrate in a patient with severe Legionella pneumonia as a levofloxacin-related complication: a case report
title_full_unstemmed Eosinophilic infiltrate in a patient with severe Legionella pneumonia as a levofloxacin-related complication: a case report
title_short Eosinophilic infiltrate in a patient with severe Legionella pneumonia as a levofloxacin-related complication: a case report
title_sort eosinophilic infiltrate in a patient with severe legionella pneumonia as a levofloxacin-related complication: a case report
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2993722/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21070648
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1752-1947-4-360
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