[Chronic eosinophilic pneumopathy in a black African patient].
The authors report a case of a black African patient who suffers from a chronic eosinophilic pneumonia. In view of the lack of precise reporting in the literature of such a case in black Africans, the initial difficulty of strictly excluding a parasitologic etiology is discussed. From the comparison of paraclinical and clinical data with those of the literature, the authors emphasize the close relationship between asthma and chronic eosinophilic pneumonia and the role of alveolar eosinophils in the physiopathology of that illness.
Brancaleone
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Service de Thoracique, Clinique Saint-Joseph, Mons, Belgique.
Roy
T
T
Fally
P
P
Dorzée
J
J
Fastrez
J
J
Castelain
T
T
d'Odemont
J P
JP
D000328:Adult; D001741:Black or African American; D000893:Anti-Inflammatory Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use; D044383:Black People; D002908:Chronic Disease; D015023:Democratic Republic of the Congo; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006801:Humans; D008174:Lung Diseases, Parasitic / Q000175:diagnosis; D008297:Male; D008775:Methylprednisolone / Q000627:therapeutic use; D011657:Pulmonary Eosinophilia / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000208:ethnology
D000893:Anti-Inflammatory Agents; D008775:Methylprednisolone