1. Eosinophilic lung disease as a sequela of MSSA pneumonia
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Syed Muhammad Zubair, Muhammad Zaid Hamid Hussain, and Ali Bin Sarwar Zubairi
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Male ,medicine.medical_specialty ,medicine.drug_class ,Antibiotics ,Case Report ,Disease ,Bronchoalveolar Lavage ,Gastroenterology ,Lung Disorder ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Internal medicine ,Pneumonia, Staphylococcal ,Humans ,Medicine ,Eosinophilia ,Pulmonary Eosinophilia ,Lung ,medicine.diagnostic_test ,business.industry ,Sequela ,General Medicine ,Emergency department ,respiratory system ,medicine.disease ,Anti-Bacterial Agents ,respiratory tract diseases ,Pneumonia ,Bronchoalveolar lavage ,030228 respiratory system ,030220 oncology & carcinogenesis ,medicine.symptom ,business - Abstract
Eosinophilic lung diseases are a rare group of lung disorders with multiple known and unknown aetiologies and the diagnosis is often challenging. We present a case of a young man who was admitted with pneumonia due to methicillin-sensitive Staphylococcus aureus and was discharged on antibiotics. He presented to the emergency department approximately 2 weeks after discharge with high-grade fever, cough and shortness of breath associated with serum and bronchoalveolar lavage eosinophilia. He was then treated with steroids with complete resolution of disease process.
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- 2021
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