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Case Report

A case of chronic eosinophilic bronchiolitis associated with bronchial asthma

Nobuhiko Nagata  Susumu Harada  Kentaro Wakamatsu  Mutsumi Shigyo  Akira Kajiki  Yoshinari Kitahara 

Department of Internal Medicine and Division of Clinical Research, National Omuta Hospital

ABSTRACT

A 62 year-old woman presented with diffuse, centriacinar nodular densities on chest radiography and CT, and an increase of peripheral blood eosinophils, four years after diagnosis of bronchial asthma. Diffuse panbronchiolitis was diagnosed, and was treated with erythromycin for a long period. One year later, she noticed exertional dyspnea, and her chest radiograph showed increased nodular densities. Lung biopsy under video-assisted thoracoscopy was performed, and revealed chronic bronchiolitis with eosinophilic infiltration, and focal, peribronchiolar eosinophilic infiltration in the alveolar septa and alveoli. She was treated with prednisolone, and her symptoms and nodular densities on chest radiography and CT were improved. We consider that the clinico-pathological findings of this case are consistent with those of chronic eosinophilic bronchiolitis, which has recently been reported in Japan. This case is different from previously reported ones in that eosinophilic bronchiolitis appeared in the course of bronchial asthma, suggesting the possibility that eosinophilic bronchiolitis may be accompanied with bronchial asthma or eosinophilic pneumonia.

KEYWORDS

Eosinophilic bronchiolitis  Bronchial asthma  Eosinophilic pneumonia  Bronchiolitis  Eosinophilic lung disease 

Received 平成16年1月21日

JJRS, 42(8): 767-771, 2004

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