• Clin. Infect. Dis. · Mar 2010

    Case Reports

    Two cases of daptomycin-induced eosinophilic pneumonia and chronic pneumonitis.

    • Yasir Lal and Aristides P Assimacopoulos.
    • Sanford School of Medicine of the University of South Dakota, Sioux Falls, 57105, USA. ylal@usd.edu
    • Clin. Infect. Dis. 2010 Mar 1; 50 (5): 737-40.

    AbstractWe present 2 elderly patients who developed lung infiltrates associated with eosinophilia during intravenous daptomycin treatment. Both patients improved quickly after daptomycin was stopped and steroid treatment was initiated. However, complete recovery did not occur, and both patients became chronically steroid dependent.

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