1. Acute Eosinophilic Pneumonia Following Cigarette Smoking
- Author
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Masaomi Marukawa, Junichiro Hiyama, Hiroto Mashiba, Hitomi Matsumoto, Tohru Kawai, Yutaro Shiota, Tetsuya Ono, and Yoshiyuki Tokuda
- Subjects
Adult ,Male ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Pleural effusion ,Prednisolone ,government.form_of_government ,Disease ,Internal medicine ,Internal Medicine ,medicine ,Humans ,Eosinophilia ,Pulmonary Eosinophilia ,Glucocorticoids ,medicine.diagnostic_test ,business.industry ,Smoking ,Respiratory disease ,General Medicine ,medicine.disease ,respiratory tract diseases ,Surgery ,Radiography ,Pneumonia ,Dyspnea ,Bronchoalveolar lavage ,Acute eosinophilic pneumonia ,Acute Disease ,government ,medicine.symptom ,business ,Complication ,Bronchoalveolar Lavage Fluid - Abstract
Two cases of acute eosinophilic pneumonia following cigarette smoking are analyzed for characteristic features. The first patient noted dyspnea 14 days after initiation of smoking. The second patient noted dyspnea 12 days after beginning to smoke. Both cases had characteristic features including occurrence at an age younger than 30 years; less than 1 month duration of cigarette smoking before onset of disease; and no identifiable cause of acute eosinophilic pneumonia apart from smoking. We believe that acute eosinophilic pneumonia following cigarette smoking, which has characteristic features as described above, should be considered as a distinct subtype of AEP.
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- 2000