TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2000//
TI  - Acute eosinophilic pneumonia associated with smoke from fireworks
JO  - Internal medicine
A1  - Hirai, K.
A1  - Yamazaki, Y.
A1  - Okada, K.
A1  - Furuta, S.
A1  - Kubo, K.
SP  - 401
EP  - 403
VL  - 39
IS  - 5
N2  - We report a case of acute eosinophilic pneumonia (AEP). Although the patient had been a habitual cigarette smoker for over 4 months, he had had not any respiratory distress. After he inhaled smoke from fireworks for 3 consecutive nights, the patient began to complain of cough, fever and dyspnea. He showed leukocytosis of 16,200/microl and hypoxemia of 58.1 torr. Chest radiograph showed bilateral infiltrates with Kerley A and B lines. The bronchoalveolar lavage fluid revealed 38.5% eosinophils. He was diagnosed as AEP. In this patient, inhaling of smoke from fireworks was clinically suspected to be associated with the induction of AEP.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0918-2918
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -