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Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Day #230 - Eosinophillia and Pulmonary Infiltrates

Today we heard a case of a patient with 2 weeks of fever and cough with diffuse abnormal chest x-ray infiltrates and profound eosinophilia.

This differential diagnosis of pulmonary eosinophilia is discussed here. Another good review is available here.

Interestingly -- there are case reports of SSRI induced eosinophilic pneumonia and our patient in this case was on two different SSRIs.

Update Oct 2010
This local publication deserves mention -- Tropical Pulmonary Eosinophilia from Toronto General's Tropical Disease Unit.

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