Andrea Di Lorenzo, Lorenzo Vittorio Rindi, Laura Campogiani, Alessandra Imeneo, Grazia Alessio, Pier Giorgio Pace, Alessandra Lodi, Benedetta Rossi, Angela Maria Antonia Crea, Pietro Vitale, Dimitra Kontogiannis, Vincenzo Malagnino, Massimo Andreoni, Marco Iannetta, Loredana Sarmati
Introduction Acute eosinophilic pneumonia (AEP) is a rare respiratory condition caused by eosinophil accumulation in the pulmonary tissue that can be related to drug administration. Daptomycin, an antibiotic active against gram-positive bacteria, is one of the leading causes of AEP among drugs. In order to raise awareness of this rare syndrome, in our work we have described a case of an 82 years-old male with Enterococcus faecalis endocarditis treated with daptomycin, who developed a daptomycin-induced AEP...
November 14, 2023: Chemotherapy