Recurrent pneumonia with persistent peripheral eosinophilia: Idiopathic chronic eosinophilic pneumonia

Although ICEP is an exceptionally rare disease, it is potentially overlooked and misdiagnosed. This case highlights the importance of peripheral eosinophilia in raising suspicion for ICEP. Without treatment, majority of patients fail to improve.

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Autores principales: Wolfley, Graey, Essien, Francis, Untisz, John
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2021
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8364995/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34430016
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.4653
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spelling pubmed-83649952021-08-23 Recurrent pneumonia with persistent peripheral eosinophilia: Idiopathic chronic eosinophilic pneumonia Wolfley, Graey Essien, Francis Untisz, John Clin Case Rep Case Report Although ICEP is an exceptionally rare disease, it is potentially overlooked and misdiagnosed. This case highlights the importance of peripheral eosinophilia in raising suspicion for ICEP. Without treatment, majority of patients fail to improve. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2021-08-15 /pmc/articles/PMC8364995/ /pubmed/34430016 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.4653 Text en © 2021 The Authors. Clinical Case Reports published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Recurrent pneumonia with persistent peripheral eosinophilia: Idiopathic chronic eosinophilic pneumonia
title Recurrent pneumonia with persistent peripheral eosinophilia: Idiopathic chronic eosinophilic pneumonia
title_full Recurrent pneumonia with persistent peripheral eosinophilia: Idiopathic chronic eosinophilic pneumonia
title_fullStr Recurrent pneumonia with persistent peripheral eosinophilia: Idiopathic chronic eosinophilic pneumonia
title_full_unstemmed Recurrent pneumonia with persistent peripheral eosinophilia: Idiopathic chronic eosinophilic pneumonia
title_short Recurrent pneumonia with persistent peripheral eosinophilia: Idiopathic chronic eosinophilic pneumonia
title_sort recurrent pneumonia with persistent peripheral eosinophilia: idiopathic chronic eosinophilic pneumonia
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8364995/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34430016
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.4653
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