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Chronic eosinophilic pneumonia in a patient with ataxia telangiectasia
A S Zagami1, H J Colebatch, D Wakefield
1Department of Neurology, Prince Henry Hospital, Little Bay, NSW.
Australian and New Zealand Journal of Medicine
|December 1, 1987
Abstract:
The first reported case of chronic eosinophilic pneumonia in a patient with ataxia telangiectasia is described. The patient displayed the immunoglobulin deficiencies and abnormalities of lymphocyte numbers characteristic of ataxia telangiectasia. Treatment with corticosteroids led to a dramatic recovery. The proposed pathogenetic mechanisms of chronic eosinophilic pneumonia are discussed in the light of the immunological abnormalities associated with ataxia telangiectasia.