Chronic eosinophilic pneumonia

  • Protracted course
  • More symptomatic
  • Mild to moderate eosinophilia
  • Elevated serum IgE in peripheral blood
  • Good prognosis
  • Patients respond to steroids
Imaging
  • Chest Xray
    • Patchy non-segmental consolidation
    • Involves mid and upper zones
    • Opacities peripheral and parallel to chest wall – photographic negative of pulmonary edema
  • CT
    • Same findings as plain film, more apparent in CT
    • Differential: organizing pneumonia. Nodules are more common in organizing pneumonia rather than chronic eosinophilic pneumonia
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Jeong, Yeon Joo, et al. “Eosinophilic lung diseases: a clinical, radiologic, and pathologic overview.” Radiographics 27.3 (2007): 617-637.

Johkoh, Takeshi, et al. “Eosinophilic lung diseases: diagnostic accuracy of thin-section CT in 111 patients.” Radiology 216.3 (2000): 773-780.