title: Pleural effusions in an overlap syndrome of idiopathic hypereosinophilic syndrome and erythema elevatum diutinum.
abstract: We report a patient with idiopathic hypereosinophilic syndrome presenting with bilateral eosinophilic pleural effusions. He also had erythema elevatum diutinum, a rare skin disease of the vasculitic type. No cardiomyopathy was present. Pleural effusions, skin lesions, and blood eosinophilia disappeared with prolonged corticosteroid treatment.
authors.affiliation: Dept. of Pneumology, Hôpital Louis Pradel, Université Claude Bernard, Lyon, France.
authors.forename: J F
authors.initials: JF
authors.lastname: Cordier
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Faure
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Hermier
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Brune
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D004890:Erythema / Q000150:complications*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010996:Pleural Effusion / Q000209:etiology*; D011657:Pulmonary Eosinophilia / Q000150:complications*; D012872:Skin Diseases, Vesiculobullous / Q000150:complications*; D013577:Syndrome