PedAM
Pediatric Disease Annotations & Medicines
| Disease | pneumonia |
| Phenotype | C0242459|acute eosinophilic pneumonia |
| Sentences | 5 |
| PubMedID- 24851134 | Acute eosinophilic pneumonia (aep) is a disease characterized by acute onset of febrile respiratory symptoms, bilateral diffuse infiltrates on chest radiography (defined as an arterial oxygen pressure below 60 mm hg or arterial oxygen saturation below 90% in room air), bronchoalveolar lavage (bal) showing over 25% of eosinophils or eosinophilic pneumonia on lung biopsy, and absence of known causes of pulmonary eosinophilia1. |
| PubMedID- 26175777 | Acute eosinophilic pneumonia (aep)151617 is an uncommon inflammatory lung disease of unknown etiology characterized by acute respiratory or systemic symptoms, diffuse radiographic pulmonary infiltrates, and infiltration of eosinophils into the lung18, and specific cytokines including il-5 plays important roles in the eosinophil recruitment and in maintaining active inflammatory processes19. |
| PubMedID- 20358030 | Badesch et al.1 have described acute eosinophilic pneumonia that is similar to chronic eosinophilic pneumonia, but different in that it shows symptoms during a period of <1 month, no association with asthma or other complications, absence of definite causes, and no recurrence after discontinuation of treatment. |
| PubMedID- 24475879 | Acute eosinophilic pneumonia (aep) is a febrile illness leading to progressive, usually noninfectious respiratory failure that is characterized by diffuse pulmonary infiltrates with an increased number of eosinophils (> 25% of the total cell count) in the bronco-alveolar lavage (bal) fluid, prompt response to corticosteroid administration, and absence of any relapse after recovery [1]. |
| PubMedID- 23814679 | This is the first report of idiopathic acute eosinophilic pneumonia developing in a current user of systemic corticosteroids. |
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