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Idiopathic Chronic Eosinophilic Pneumonia

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Synonyms

Carrington’s disease; Chronic eosinophilic pneumonia (CEP); Idiopathic chronic eosinophilic pneumonia (ICEP)

Definition

The term eosinophilic pneumonia (EP) is used to describe a histopathologic pattern of eosinophilic infiltration of the interstitium and alveolar spaces. Diseases with this underlying histopathologic pattern have been further categorized based on primary or secondary etiologies. Secondary EP may result from a variety of disease processes including drug toxicity, parasitic and fungal infections, and allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis/mycosis (ABPA/ABPM). Primary EP conditions are further categorized based on the presence of extrapulmonary manifestations (including Churg-Strauss syndrome and idiopathic hypereosinophilic syndrome) or based on lung-limited disease (including idiopathic chronic eosinophilic pneumonia (ICEP) and idiopathic acute eosinophilic pneumonia (IAEP)) (Table 1) (Cordier 2003). ICEP and IAEP differ with respect to clinical presentation,...

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  1. Interstitial Lung Disease Program/Autoimmune Lung Center, National Jewish Health University of Colorado, 1400 Jackson Street, Denver, CO, 80206, USA

    Amy L. Olson

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  1. Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia

    Ian R. Mackay

  2. Center for Autoimmune Disease Research, Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Department of Pathology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA

    Noel R. Rose

  3. Division of Allergy and Immunology, Department of Internal Medicine, University of South Florida Morsani College of Medicine, James A. Haley Veterans' Hospital, Tampa, FL, USA

    Dennis K. Ledford

  4. Division of Allergy and Immunology, Department of Internal Medicine, University of South Florida Morsani College of Medicine, James A. Haley Veterans' Hospital, Tampa, FL, USA

    Richard F. Lockey

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Olson, A.L. (2014). Idiopathic Chronic Eosinophilic Pneumonia. In: Mackay, I.R., Rose, N.R., Ledford, D.K., Lockey, R.F. (eds) Encyclopedia of Medical Immunology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-9194-1_502

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