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Year 2013, Volume: 10 Issue: 2, 128 - 130, 01.06.2013

Sajjad Naseer S. Chauhan

Abstract

CEP accounts for up to 2% of all cases of interstitial lung diseases and seem more frequently in females. Symptoms are generally nonspecific. Wheezing, haemoptysis and respiratory failure are rarely seen. Extra-thoracic system involvement if present, excludes a diagnosis of CEP. Diagnosis is based on; respiratory symptoms of more than 2 weeks duration, alveolar (>40% on Broncho-alveolar lavage) and/or blood eosinophilia (0.1 X109/L), pulmonary infiltrates with usually a peripheral predominance on chest imaging and exclusion of other causes of eosinophilia. The chest X-ray as in the index case, described as photographic negative of pulmonary oedema is characteristic of CEP and is seen in up to one fourth of patients.

Keywords

Chronic Eosinophilic Pneumonia (CEP)-Interstitial Lung disease-idiopathic hyper-Eosinophilic syndrome-Corticosteroids-Broncho-alveolar Lavage

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