ALLMedicine™ Pulmonary Eosinophilia Center

Jun 7th, 2022 - Osimertinib has demonstrated impressive efficacy as a first-line treatment for patients with advanced epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) mutation-positive (m+) lung cancer. Drug-related pneumonitis (DRP) is a potentially lethal complication o...

Apr 14th, 2022 - Practice Essentials Löffler syndrome is a transient respiratory illness associated with blood eosinophilia and radiographic shadowing. (See the image below.) It was initially described by Löffler in 1932. In 1952, Crofton included Löffler syndrome...

Apr 14th, 2022 - Practice Essentials Löffler syndrome is a transient respiratory illness associated with blood eosinophilia and radiographic shadowing. (See the image below.) It was initially described by Löffler in 1932. In 1952, Crofton included Löffler syndrome...

Apr 14th, 2022 - History Symptoms of Löffler syndrome are usually mild or absent and tend to spontaneously resolve after several days or, at most, after 2-3 weeks. Cough is the most common symptom among symptomatic patients. It is usually dry and unproductive but ...

Apr 14th, 2022 - Medication Summary The minimal nature of symptoms in most patients with Löffler syndrome usually denotes that no pharmacologic therapy is required for this self-limiting condition. For drug-induced pulmonary eosinophilia, discontinue administratio...

Nov 9th, 2020 - Daptomycin is an antibiotic from the family of cyclic lipopeptides, bactericide, concentration-dependent. Its spectrum concerns Gram-positive bacteria. The Infectious Diseases Society of America recommends the use of daptomycin 6 mg / kg / day in ...

Mar 2nd, 2020 - The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the first generic version of the antiparasitic drug Daraprim (pyrimethamine) for the treatment of toxoplasmosis when used with a sulfonamide. The generic version of Daraprim tablets is made by...

Oct 28th, 2019 - The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has issued coding guidance to help track e-cigarette, or vaping, product use–associated lung injury (EVALI). mauro grigollo/Thinkstock The purpose of the coding guidelines “is to provide official diag.

Acute eosinophilic pneumonia is considered a rare disease, but it occurred at an increased rate among a population of soldiers serving in or near Iraq between March 2003 and March 2004, and may be associated with new-onset smoking and/or dust inha.