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China - 18 year old Discharged from Hospital after 5 weeks - Rare Pneumonia

sharon sanders

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18-year-old guy contracted a rare pneumonia in 24 years a total of five cases of NPC
http://www.sina.com.cn 2010 年 09 月 06 日 06:04 Peninsula Network - Peninsula City News

Peninsula City News September 5 Newsletter (Student's Chen Meijie) 18-year-old guy Joseph Lee (a pseudonym) got pneumonia long treatment, and the emergence of respiratory failure, deteriorated rapidly under the two hospitals in critical condition. In many inspection, the hospital confirmed the risk of a rare acute eosinophilic pneumonia, before the country found only in 4 cases.

One day in July, Joseph Lee, because of cough, sputum production to the hospital, the situation has not improved, then began to feel chest pain, high fever after a few days, further aggravating the condition. July 28 he went to City Hospital for treatment, according to Department of Respiratory Medicine City Hospital Director Liu Xuedong introduced under the hospital a few days after another two in critical condition. Subsequently, the patients diagnosed as acute eosinophilic pneumonia. Liu Xuedong introduced since 1986 has found the disease, foreign reports about the number of cases 150 cases, found only four cases of domestic, this is the first 5 cases.

"Because there is no experience in treating this disease, our treatment is basically in accordance with the textbook approach to the patient's condition appeared repeatedly, but in the end has been effectively controlled." Liu Xuedong told reporters that the patient is now basically recovered, you can back and forth in the corridor, on September 2 and discharged....

http://news.sina.com.cn/s/2010-09-06/060421045062.shtml
 
Re: China - 18 year old Discharged from Hospital after 5 weeks - Rare Pneumonia

From Merck Manual: http://www.merck.com/mmhe/sec04/ch051/ch051c.html

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<table border="0" cellpadding="6" cellspacing="0" width="100%"> <tbody><tr> <td class="alt2" style="border: 1px inset ;"> The exact reason that eosinophils accumulate in the lungs is not well understood, and often it is not possible to identify the substance that is causing the allergic reaction. However, there are some known causes of eosinophilic pneumonia, including certain drugs (penicillin, aminosalicylic acid, carbamazepine, naproxen, isoniazid, nitrofurantoin, chlorpropamide, and sulfonamides [such as trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole]); chemical fumes (nickel inhaled as a vapor); fungi (Aspergillus fumigatus); and parasites (roundworms, including nematodes). </td> </tr> </tbody></table>
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