Acute eosinophilic pneumonia associated with smoking: a case report

Acute eosinophilic pneumonia (AEP) is commonly misdiagnosed as infectious pneumonia due to presence of fever and radiological features. However, development of peripheral eosinophilia within days of presentation should raise the concern of AEP especially in previously heathy adults with history of r...

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Autor principal: Fayyaz, Beenish
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Taylor & Francis 2018
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5998281/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29915648
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/20009666.2018.1466601
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spelling pubmed-59982812018-06-18 Acute eosinophilic pneumonia associated with smoking: a case report Fayyaz, Beenish J Community Hosp Intern Med Perspect Case Report Acute eosinophilic pneumonia (AEP) is commonly misdiagnosed as infectious pneumonia due to presence of fever and radiological features. However, development of peripheral eosinophilia within days of presentation should raise the concern of AEP especially in previously heathy adults with history of recent tobacco smoking. Taylor & Francis 2018-06-12 /pmc/articles/PMC5998281/ /pubmed/29915648 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/20009666.2018.1466601 Text en © 2018 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_full_unstemmed Acute eosinophilic pneumonia associated with smoking: a case report
title_short Acute eosinophilic pneumonia associated with smoking: a case report
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5998281/
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