[Clinical case of the month. Chronic eosinophilic pneumonia].
We report the case of a 32-year old man who had a feverish pneumopathy with coughing. An idiopathic eosinophilic pneumonia was soon disclosed; the evolution was rapidly favourable under systemic corticotherapy, but marked by a cortico-dependence in the long term. The follow-up of the relapses, when corticotherapy was stopped, showed a perfect correlation between reappearance of somatic plaints and eosinophilic blood levels.
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D000328:Adult; D002908:Chronic Disease; D005938:Glucocorticoids / Q000627:therapeutic use; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008775:Methylprednisolone / Q000627:therapeutic use; D011657:Pulmonary Eosinophilia / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000188:drug therapy
D005938:Glucocorticoids; D008775:Methylprednisolone