Pulmonary Infiltrates With Eosinophilia Syndrome

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Contents 1 More Specific Terms 2 Introduction 3 Etiology 4 Management 5 More General Terms 6 Additional Terms 7 References

More Specific Terms

• acute eosinophilic leukemia
• allergic angiitis & granulomatosis of Churg-Strauss
• allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis (ABPA)
• asthma
• bronchocentric granulomatosis
• drugs causing eosinophilia
• eosinophilic pneumonia
• hypereosinophilic syndrome
• Loffler's syndrome (simple pulmonary eosinophilia)
• parasites frequently associated with eosinophilia
• tropical eosinophilia

Introduction

• A group of heterogenous disorders characterized by the presence of abnormalities on chest X-ray & eosinophilia.

Etiology

• asthma
• pulmonary eosinophilia
• allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis
• eosinophilic pneumonia

• acute eosinophilic pneumonia
• chronic eosinophilic pneumonia

• Churg-Strauss disease
• parasitic infections
• pharmaceutical agents
• neoplasms associated with eosinophilia:

• eosinophilic leukemia
• adenocarcinoma of the lung
• lymphoma

• tropical eosinophilia
• hypereosinophilic syndrome
• bronchocentric granulomatosis

Management

• long-term systemic glucocorticoids

More General Terms

• lung disease

Additional Terms

• eosinophilia

References

Mayo Internal Medicine Board Review, 1998-99, Prakash UBS (ed) Lippincott-Raven, Philadelphia, 1998, pg 753

pulmonary infiltrates with eosinophilia (PIE) syndrome