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Chronic eosinophilic pneumonia associated with an initiation of rheumatoid arthritis

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Although peripheral blood eosinophilia is observed in patients with active inflammatory rheumatoid arthritis (RA), RA is not a recognised cause of pulmonary eosinophilia. We describe a 55-year-old woman affected by chronic eosinophilic pneumonia (CEP) concomitantly with an initiation of RA. Both diseases responded rapidly and completely to high-dose corticosteroid therapy. In this patient, the initiation of RA and CEP was directly related, implying a common pathogenetic link between the two diseases.

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Jae-Jin Kwak and Ji-Eun Chang contributed equally to this work.

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  1. Ewha Women's University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

    J.-J. Kwak, J.-E. Chang, J. Lee, Y.-J. Cho & S.H. Sung

  2. Department of Internal Medicine, Ewha Women's University College of Medicine, 911-1 Mok-dong, Yangcheon-gu, Seoul, 158-710, Korea

    J. Lee

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Kwak, JJ., Chang, JE., Lee, J. et al. Chronic eosinophilic pneumonia associated with an initiation of rheumatoid arthritis. Clin Rheumatol 22, 240–243 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10067-003-0703-8

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