Bronchoalveolar Lavage in Chronic Eosinophilic Pneumonia
- 1 January 1988
- journal article
- research article
- Published by S. Karger AG in Respiration
- Vol. 54 (1) , 16-22
- https://doi.org/10.1159/000195475
Abstract
We describe 6 patients with chronic eosinophilic pneumonia (CEP) investigated clinically and by bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL). The BAL findings of these 6 patients were compared with those of 293 patients with other interstitial lung diseases (ILD): 184 with sarcoidosis, 63 with hypersensitivity pneumonitis, 46 with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF). In patients with CEP, BAL analysis was characterized by a markedly increased number of eosinophils (mean ± 1 SD: 54.2 ± 26.4 of effector cells; in control subjects, eosinophils wereKeywords
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