Pulmonary Infiltration with Eosinophilia

Abstract

FARMER'S lung resembles Loeffler's syndrome, for, at times, it manifests the triad of pulmonary infiltrations, eosinophilia and a benign clinical course. To relegate it to the long, uncritical list of causes of Loeffler's syndrome lends a mysterious air to the disease.1 Each new article mentions it until it is carried along because of repetition rather than because of an exacting analysis of its true position. With this in mind, we present 2 clinical cases of farmer's lung, review this new disease and examine its pathogenesis and treatment.Two patients with pulmonary infiltration and eosinophilia were studied in Houston. Both had . . .