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Abstract
Case Report
A case of drug-induced eosinophilic pneumonia caused by the supplement picked out from placenta of a pig
Hiroshi Ishimoto Kazuhiro Yatera Yousuke Sasahara Tetsuya Hanaka Keishi Oda Hiroshi Mukae
Department of Respiratory Medicine, University of Occupational and Environmental Health, Japan
ABSTRACT
A 52-year old Japanese woman came to our hospital with productive cough and low-grade fever. An X-ray film of the chest showed infiltration in the right upper and middle lung fields. A computed tomography imaging showed diffuse ground-glass attenuation with patchy distribution. The count of peripheral blood and bronchoalveolar lavage fluid disclosed an abnormal increase of eosinophil. Drug-induced lung disease caused by her common-use supplement picked out from placenta of a pig was suspected, and cancellation of this supplement brought on improvement of the symptoms, chest abnormal shadow, and eosinophilia. This is the first report, to our knowledge, showing that the supplement of placenta extract caused drug-induced lung disease.
KEYWORDS
Placenta extracts Drug-induced lung disease Eosinophilic pneumonia
Received 24 Mar 2015 ／ Accepted 10 Jul 2015
AJRS, 4(6): 464-467, 2015
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