- 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
Read more
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.
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