• Infection · Dec 2011

    Case Reports

    A rare cause of pulmonary infiltrates one should be aware of: a case of daptomycin-induced acute eosinophilic pneumonia.

    • C Rether, A Conen, M Grossenbacher, and W C Albrich.
    • Medical University Department, Kantonsspital Aarau, Tellstrasse, 5001 Aarau, Switzerland.
    • Infection. 2011 Dec 1; 39 (6): 583-5.

    AbstractWe report a 69-year-old patient who developed fever and dyspnea 3 weeks after the initiation of daptomycin therapy for spondylodiscitis with lumbar epidural and bilateral psoas abscesses due to ampicillin- and high-level-gentamicin-resistant Enterococcus faecium. There was profound hypoxia and the chest X-ray showed extensive patchy infiltrates bilaterally. A bronchoalveolar lavage revealed 30% eosinophils and results of microbiological studies were normal. Daptomycin-induced eosinophilic pneumonia was diagnosed and the patient rapidly improved after the discontinuation of daptomycin and a brief course of prednisone. Increased attention must be paid to this rare but serious side effect of daptomycin.

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