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Parasitic Pulmonary Eosinophilia

Seminars in Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, 2006
Parasitic infections, although common in tropical and subtropical regions, are prevalent worldwide because of changing immigration patterns and in international travel. The burden of worm infection is enormous and the intensity of infection is usually high among the poor and in immunocompromised individuals.
Rajinder K, Chitkara, Ganesh, Krishna
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Pulmonary Eosinophilia

Clinical Allergy and Asthma Management in Adolescents and Young Adults, 2021
K. Narayan
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Pulmonary Eosinophilia

Clinical Reviews in Allergy & Immunology, 2008
Eosinophils may infiltrate the lung tissue, thus impairing gas exchange and causing several symptoms as dyspnea, fever, and cough. This process may be secondary to several factors, including drugs or parasite migration, or primary (idiopathic). Acute eosinophilic pneumonia is life-threatening and presents frequently in young smokers as an acute ...
Uriel, Katz, Yehuda, Shoenfeld
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Pulmonary eosinophilia

European Journal of Radiology, 1996
The pulmonary eosinophilias are a diverse group of disorders characterised by pulmonary infiltrates, rich in eosinophils usually associated with a peripheral blood eosinophilia. Known causes of pulmonary eosinophilia include fungi--in particular Aspergillus fumigatus, parasites, toxins and drugs. Pulmonary eosinophilias of unknown cause include Löffler'
G A, Bain, C D, Flower
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Filarial tropical pulmonary eosinophilia: a condition masquerading asthma, a series of 12 cases

Journal of Asthma, 2018
Introduction: Tropical pulmonary eosinophilia (TPE) is a form of occult filariasis, clinically characterized by paroxysmal cough, wheezing and dyspnea which is often misdiagnosed and treated as asthma.
W. Tsanglao, D. Nandan, S. Chandelia, N. Arya, Anu Sharma   +4 more
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Cryptogenic pulmonary eosinophilias

Clinical & Experimental Allergy, 1973
SummaryIn the U.K. allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis is the cause of pulmonary eosinophilia (PE) in about 80% of the instances. The purpose of this paper is to describe distinctive clinical, immunological, radiological and respiratory functional changes in twenty‐seven cases of PE in whom an aetiological diagnosis was not possible (cryptogenic ...
D S, McCarthy, J, Pepys
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Tropical Pulmonary Eosinophilia

Southern Medical Journal, 1990
Tropical pulmonary eosinophilia is an unusual pulmonary disorder caused by occult filariasis. Presentation can be varied and can mimic asthma, pulmonary tuberculosis, or atypical pneumonia. We have reported a case of tropical pulmonary eosinophilia mimicking lymphangitic carcinomatosis.
R J, Enzenauer, G H, Underwood, J, Ribbing   +2 more
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Tropical Pulmonary Eosinophilia

Annual Review of Medicine, 1992
Tropical pulmonary eosinophilia is one of the many PIE syndromes [pulmonary infiltrates with eosinophilia (of the peripheral blood)]. It is caused by immunologic hyperresponsiveness to the filarial parasites Wuchereria bancrofti or Brugia malayi.
E A, Ottesen, T B, Nutman
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Cryptogenic pulmonary eosinophilia

Clinical & Experimental Allergy, 1976
SummaryThe clinical and immunological features of fifteen cases of cryptogenic pulmonary eosinophilia are reported. There were ten women (mean age 35·4 years) and five men (mean age 42 years). Eight gave a previous history of asthma and seven had none. Thirteen of the fifteen patients had negative skin test to common allergens.
M, Turner-Warwick, E S, Assem, M, Lockwood   +2 more
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