Idiopathic acute eosinophilic pneumonia requiring ECMO in a teenager smoking tobacco and cannabis.
We describe what we believe is an entirely novel case of a 15-year-old boy with idiopathic acute eosinophilic pneumonia and unusual, resistant hypoxemia which necessitated extracorporeal membrane oxygenation. Response to corticosteroids was excellent and a full recovery was observed. Smoking cigarettes and cannabis on the day the symptoms began may have contributed to the occurrence of this rare disease.
Sauvaget
Emilie
E
Pediatric Pulmonology Unit, University Hospital La Timone-Enfants, Marseille, France.
Dellamonica
Jean
J
Arlaud
Kévin
K
Sanfiorenzo
Céline
C
Bernardin
Gilles
G
Padovani
Bernard
B
Viard
Laurent
L
Dubus
Jean-Christophe
JC
D000208:Acute Disease; D000293:Adolescent; D015199:Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation; D005938:Glucocorticoids / Q000627:therapeutic use; D006801:Humans; D000860:Hypoxia / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy; D008297:Male; D008385:Marijuana Smoking / Q000009:adverse effects*; D008775:Methylprednisolone / Q000627:therapeutic use; D011657:Pulmonary Eosinophilia / Q000209:etiology* / Q000628:therapy*; D013902:Radiography, Thoracic; D012907:Smoking / Q000009:adverse effects*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed
D005938:Glucocorticoids; D008775:Methylprednisolone