Eosinophilic pneumonia historical perspective
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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1] Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Priyamvada Singh, M.D. [2]
Overview
- At the turn of the 20th century, it was recognized that some patients died with bilateral lung disease that was unrelated to the common nontraumatic causes of death at that time.
- At autopsy, the lungs were cystic and scarring process preferentially involved the peripheral aspects of the lungs and named the honeycomb changes.
- In 1944, Hamman described a group of four otherwise healthy patients who developed rapid and fulminantly progressive lung disease, and died of respiratory failure within 1 to 3 months of presentation. At autopsy, these patients had advanced honeycomb changes and fibrosis in their lungs. This disorder became known as Hamman-Rich syndrome.
- IAEP first described by Badesch and colleagues and later individualized by Allen and colleagues is both the most dramatic and the most frequently misdiagnosed of eosinophilic pneumonias.[1]
- In 1969, Carrington was the first to describe chronic eosinophilic pneumonia and known as Carrington syndrome.
- In 1989, Acute eosinophilic pneumonia was first described.
References
- ↑ Badesch DB, King TE, Schwarz MI (1989). "Acute eosinophilic pneumonia: a hypersensitivity phenomenon?". Am Rev Respir Dis. 139 (1): 249–52. doi:10.1164/ajrccm/139.1.249. PMID 2912347.