Abstract
Although peripheral blood eosinophilia is observed in patients with active inflammatory rheumatoid arthritis (RA), RA is not a recognised cause of pulmonary eosinophilia. We describe a 55-year-old woman affected by chronic eosinophilic pneumonia (CEP) concomitantly with an initiation of RA. Both diseases responded rapidly and completely to high-dose corticosteroid therapy. In this patient, the initiation of RA and CEP was directly related, implying a common pathogenetic link between the two diseases.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 240-243 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| Journal | Clinical Rheumatology |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Sep 2003 |
Keywords
- Chronic eosinophilic pneumonia
- Eosinophilia
- Initiation
- Rheumatoid arthritis
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