[Features of eosinophilic pneumonia course in the outpatient setting].
Simple eosinophilic pneumonia (Luffler's syndrome) is combination of "volatile" infiltrates, independently passing during one month and detecting only in chest organs roentgenography; often pass symptomless. There is a mild eosinophilia in the blood. Acute eosinophilic pneumonia is an antipode of simple eosinophilic pneumonia, has a clinical course with acute respiratory failure, pulmonary destruction, high eosinophilia and favorable prognosis under conditions of treatment with glucocorticoids. In chronic eosinophilic pneumonia infiltrates in the lungs recur more than 4 weeks; the disease has a course with fever, intoxication, high eosinophilia and pleural effusion. The special feature of this clinical case is a combination some symptoms of all kinds of eosinophilic pneumonia. Equally with symptomless course, normal number of eosinophils, there is an absence of tendency to spontaneous recovery, presence of pulmonary infiltrates up to therapy with glucocorticoids; non-typical roentgenological picture of chest organs in the beginning of disease.
Korytovskaia
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Sarkisian
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Tishman
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Ulanova
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D000368:Aged; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D005938:Glucocorticoids / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D006801:Humans; D007958:Leukocyte Count; D008297:Male; D008775:Methylprednisolone / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D010045:Outpatients; D011657:Pulmonary Eosinophilia / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000188:drug therapy; D013902:Radiography, Thoracic; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed
D005938:Glucocorticoids; D008775:Methylprednisolone