Important Disorders and Treatments Associated With Eosinophilia

Important Disorders and Treatments Associated With Eosinophilia

Cause or Associated Disorder

Examples

Allergic or atopic disorders

Asthma

Allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis

Allergic rhinitis

Atopic dermatitis

Episodic angioedema with eosinophilia

Medication reactions (eg, to antibiotics or NSAIDs)

Milk-protein allergy

Occupational lung disease

Urticaria

Systemic rheumatic diseases, vasculitic or granulomatous disorders (especially those involving the lungs)

Eosinophilic fasciitis

Eosinophilic granulomatosis with polyangiitis

Idiopathic eosinophilic synovitis

IgG4-related disease

Inflammatory bowel disease

Kimura disease

Polyarteritis nodosa

Post myocardial infarction syndrome (Dressler syndrome)

Progressive systemic sclerosis (scleroderma)

Rheumatoid arthritis

Sarcoidosis

Sjögren syndrome

Systemic lupus erythematosus

Endocrine disorders

Adrenal hypofunction

Immune disorders (often with eczema)

Congenital immunodeficiency syndrome (eg, IgA deficiency, hyper-IgE syndrome, Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome)

Graft-vs-host disease

Acute leukemias and myeloproliferative neoplasms

Acute or chronic eosinophilic leukemia

Acute lymphoblastic leukemia, particularly B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (B-ALL) with t(5;14)(q31;q32) - IGH–IL3 rearrangement*

Chronic myeloid leukemia

Hypereosinophilic syndrome

Nonparasitic infections

Aspergillosis

Brucellosis

Cat-scratch disease

Chlamydial pneumonia of infancy

Coccidioidomycosis (acute)

Infectious lymphocytosis

Infectious mononucleosis

Mycobacterial disease

Scarlet fever

Parasitic infections (especially due to tissue-invasive metazoans)

Angiostrongyliasis

Anisakiasis

Ascariasis

Clonorchiasis

Cysticercosis (caused by Taenia solium)

Echinococcosis

Fascioliasis

Filariasis

Hookworm infection

Paragonimiasis

Pneumocystis jirovecii infection

Schistosomiasis

Strongyloidiasis

Toxocariasis

Trichinosis

Trichuriasis

Skin disorders

Dermatitis herpetiformis

Exfoliative dermatitis

Pemphigus

Psoriasis

Syndromes of pulmonary infiltration with eosinophilia

Allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis

Chronic eosinophilic pneumonia

Eosinophilic granulomatosis with polyangiitis (Churg-Strauss syndrome)

Löffler syndrome

Tropical pulmonary eosinophilia

Non-myeloproliferative cancers

Angioimmunoblastic T-cell lymphoma (previously known as angioimmunoblastic lymphadenopathy with dysproteinemia or AILD) in association with systemic symptoms and autoimmune hemolytic anemia

Carcinomas and sarcomas of the lung, pancreas, colon, cervix, or ovary

Hodgkin lymphoma

Non-Hodgkin lymphomas

Miscellaneous

Cirrhosis

Familial eosinophilia

Peritoneal dialysis

Radiation therapy

* Fournier B, Balducci E, Duployez N, et al. B-ALL With t(5;14)(q31;q32); IGH-IL3 Rearrangement and Eosinophilia: A Comprehensive Analysis of a Peculiar IGH-Rearranged B-ALL. Front Oncol. 2019;9:1374. doi:10.3389/fonc.2019.01374

NSAID = nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug.

* Fournier B, Balducci E, Duployez N, et al. B-ALL With t(5;14)(q31;q32); IGH-IL3 Rearrangement and Eosinophilia: A Comprehensive Analysis of a Peculiar IGH-Rearranged B-ALL. Front Oncol. 2019;9:1374. doi:10.3389/fonc.2019.01374

NSAID = nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug.

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