[Domiciliary intravenous antibiotic therapy].

Background: To assess the efficiency and safety of intravenous antibiotic therapy (IAT) when performed through the traditional simple infusion system by gravity in the home setting.

Patients And Methods: The clinical records of patients undergoing intravenous antibiotic therapy through the traditional gravitational infusion system in the home care unit over a five year period were reviewed retrospectively.

Results: 120 patients were treated (44 F/76 M), with a mean age of 48 years (44-52).

[Acute eosinophilic pneumonia: presentation of a case and review of the literature].

Pulmonary eosinophilias are characterized by the appearance of lung infiltrates by eosinophils and the presence, commonly, of peripheral blood eosinophilia. Among idiopathic pulmonary eosinophilias, with no evidence of any cause or underlying disease, chronic eosinophilic pneumonia is the most characteristic. Recently, there has been described a few cases of eosinophilic pneumonia with many similarities to chronic eosinophilic pneumonia but with a shorter clinical course, a very good response to corticoid therapy, and without tendency to relapse.