Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases

Table 5 IAEP patient treatment and evolution

From: Idiopathic eosinophilic pneumonia in children: the French experience

Patient	Treatment								Evolution
	Ventilatory support				Corticosteroid treatment				Total length of follow up	Asthma	Last spirometry	Last CT scan
	NIV	MV	ECMO	paO2/FiO2	IVCS	OCS start dose	Total length	Response
1	_	5 days	_	77	4 mg/kg/day	prednisolone 2 mg/kg/day	3 months	Total	3 years	Yes	Normal	nd
							3 months		10 months
							1 week
					7 days		1 week
2	few hours	9 days	4 days	45	6-4 mg/kg/day	prednisone 2 mg/kg/day	48 days	Total	9 months	No	D	Normal
2	few hours	9 days	4 days	45	9 days	prednisone 2 mg/kg/day	48 days	Total	9 months	No	D	Normal
3	24 h before, 48 h after MV	2 days	_	50	10 mg/kg/day	prednisolone 1 mg/kg/day	6 weeks	Total	8 months	No	Normal (DLCO not done)	Normal
3	24 h before, 48 h after MV	2 days	_	50	3 days	prednisolone 1 mg/kg/day	6 weeks	Total	8 months	No	Normal (DLCO not done)	Normal

Footnote: NIV: noninvasive ventilation, MV: mechanical ventilation, ECMO: ExtraCorporeal Membrane Oxygenation, IVCS: intravenous corticosteroid therapy, OCS: oral corticosteroid therapy, D: diffusion impairment.

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