Priora, Marta and Vassallo, Lorenzo and Scarati, Marco and Parisi, Simone and Fusaro, Enrico (2015) Eosinophilic Pneumonia Associated with Rheumatoid Arthritis: Description of a Case Report and Review of the Literature. European Journal of Case Reports in Internal Medicine, 2 (6). pp. 1-4. ISSN 2284-2594
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Abstract
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA), a systemic inflammatory disease, may induce pulmonary manifestations. We describe a case of longstanding RA presenting with eosinophilic pneumonia (EP). Rare case reports of tissue eosinophilia involving isolated organs in the setting of RA exist in the literature. It has been shown that the production of proinflammatory cytokines activates different cell group and can simultaneously play a role in RA and induce eosinophils infiltration in target tissue. An appropriate lowest possible dosage of steroid therapy is essential, whereas EP may be a rare subset of pulmonary involvement in RA.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Eosinophilic pneumonia; rheumatoid arthritis; steroid therapy. |
| Subjects: | 600 Tecnologia - Scienze applicate > 610 Medicina e salute (Classificare qui la tecnologia dei servizi medici) > 616 Malattie (classificare qui la Clinica medica, la medicina basata sull'evidenza, la Medicina interna, la Medicina sperimentale) > 616.7 Malattie del sistema muscoloscheletrico |
| Depositing User: | Chiara D'Arpa |
| Date Deposited: | 14 Sep 2016 15:01 |
| Last Modified: | 14 Sep 2016 15:01 |
| URI: | http://eprints.bice.rm.cnr.it/id/eprint/15072 |
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