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Eosinophilic gastroenteritis

Eravelly J, Ho Hon Fah, Wong Wai Ping

Med J Malaya, 1967 Dec;22(2):130-5.

PMID: 4231978

Matched MeSH terms: Eosinophilia/complications*

Intestinal helminths in relation to eosinophilic lung (tropical eosinophilia) in Singapore

Schacher JF, Danaraj TJ

Am J Trop Med Hyg, 1960 Nov;9(6):616-9.

PMID: 13747131

The above survey based on a study of single stool specimens from 569 patients, drawn from a hospital population belonging to different ethnic groups and having different cultural backgrounds, failed to indicate an association between intestinal helminth infection and eosinophilic lung. The higher prevalence of eosinophilic lung in Indians than in the other ethnic groups, as reported previously, cannot be explained on a basis of differences in the prevalence of the intestinal helminths, Ascaris lumbricoides, hookworm, Trichuris trichiura and Strongyloides stercoralis.

Matched MeSH terms: Eosinophilia/complications*

Acquired platelet dysfunction with eosinophilia in white children

Poon MC, Ng SC, Coppes MJ

J Pediatr, 1995 Jun;126(6):959-61.

PMID: 7776107

Acquired platelet dysfunction associated with eosinophilia has been described mainly in indigenous Southeast Asian and East Indian children. We describe two white boys in whom this disorder developed after they had lived in Malaysia for 12 to 18 months. Acquired platelet dysfunction associated with eosinophilia should therefore be considered in children who, after a visit to this region, have easy bruising and esoinophilia.

Matched MeSH terms: Eosinophilia/complications*

Fulltext Kimura's disease: an unusual cause of cervical tumor

Asma A, Maizaton AA

Med J Malaysia, 2005 Aug;60(3):373-6.

PMID: 16379197

Kimura's disease (KD) is an angiolymphoid proliferative disease of soft tissue with peripheral blood eosinophilia and elevated serum immunoglobulin (Ig) E. The treatment options range from conservative observation for the asymptomatic patient to surgical excision, steroid therapy and radiotherapy for symptomatic patients. Surgical excision is the most common diagnostic measure and is the treatment of choice. A case of KD in a 13-year-old Malay girl is presented. Clinically there was painless right jugular digastric mass measuring 3cm by 3cm. Her blood investigation showed pronounced eosinophilia. She underwent excision biopsy uneventfully. The biopsy from the swelling showed reactive follicular hyperplasic with prominent eosinophilia. There was no evidence of malignant change. Postoperatively after 3 years follow up, she was asymptomatic and no signs of tumor recurrence.

Matched MeSH terms: Angiolymphoid Hyperplasia with Eosinophilia/complications*

Cor pulmonale: an unusual presentation of tropical eosinophilia

Quah BS, Anuar AK, Rowani MR, Pennie RA

Ann Trop Paediatr, 1997 Mar;17(1):77-81.

PMID: 9176582

Tropical pulmonary eosinophilia (TPE) is considered to be a variant of human filarial infection. The pulmonary manifestations of TPE have been well described. Extra-pulmonary features of the disease, although not commonly seen, have been reported previously. A 9-year-old Malay girl with a history of recurrent cough and wheezing was admitted because of cardiac failure. Physical examination revealed a very sick girl with tachypnoea, central cyanosis, finger clubbing, elevated jugular venous pulse, generalized crackles and rhonchi in the chest, a loud second heart sound and hepatosplenomegaly. A chest radiograph showed cardiomegaly and right pleural effusion. Laboratory investigations revealed hypochromic, microcytic anaemia with persistent blood eosinophilia (absolute eosinophil counts varied from 1.9 to 5.5 x 10(9)/1). The ELISA test for antifilarial IgG antibodies was strongly positive. She responded promptly to treatment with diethylcarbamazine. In summary, this is a patient with TPE who presented with cor pulmonale, probably due to late-stage interstitial pulmonary fibrosis. In order to prevent the long term morbidity of cardiorespiratory disability, the early signs of TPE should be recognized and the infection treated.

Matched MeSH terms: Pulmonary Eosinophilia/complications*

Fulltext A study of 31 patients with easy bruising from University Hospital, Kuala Lumpur

Chin NS, Koong PL

Med J Malaysia, 1990 Dec;45(4):325-8.

PMID: 2152054

Thirty one patients were investigated for the main complaint of easy bruising. These patients had normal platelet count with no past history of immune thrombocytopenia or systemic disorders known to predispose to bruising and a negative drug history. The evaluation of these patients included clinical review (history and physical examination) plus coagulation tests consisting of bleeding time, prothrombin time, partial thromboplastin time, thrombin time, fibrinogen level, FXIII screen and platelet functions test. Seven of the paediatric patients had acquired platelet dysfunction with eosinophilia (APDE). In 17 (94.4%) of the 18 adult patients no abnormality was demonstrated. Hence APDE was the commonest cause of easy bruising in children while the haemostatic defect contributing to easy bruising in adults remained unknown.

Matched MeSH terms: Eosinophilia/complications

Fulltext Cutaneous drug eruptions

Adam BA

Med J Malaysia, 1982 Jun;37(2):110-3.

PMID: 6215559

Patients attending a referral Skin Clinic were studied to identify the spectrum of drug eruptions and the offending drugs. There were 51 patients with an incidence of five per thousand and equal sex incidence. Though the pattern of eruption was broadly similar to other reports, unusual reactions were observed. In addition to the skin manifestation, fever and lymphadenopathy were present in most patients. Raised erythrocyte sedimentation rate and eosinopoenia were commonly observed. Clinical acumen and the list of drugs ingested are still the best clues to the diagnosis ofdrug eruption.
Study site: Skin clinic, University Malaya Medical Centre (UMMC), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Matched MeSH terms: Eosinophilia/complications

Eosinophilic gastroenteritis complicating acute calculus eosinophilic cholecystitis 6 months after cholecystectomy

Hui CK

J Dig Dis, 2018 Nov;19(11):693-695.

PMID: 30370999 DOI: 10.1111/1751-2980.12683

Matched MeSH terms: Eosinophilia/complications

Hypereosinophilia responding to empirical antihelminthic treatment

Loh KY, Lee XE

Southeast Asian J Trop Med Public Health, 2010 Nov;41(6):1322-3.

PMID: 21329305

We report a 20-year-old college student presents with bilateral ankle edema associated with hypereosinophilia following a history of traveling in a rural area. Physical examinations and investigations failed to diagnose any underlying cause. She was treated with antihelminth medication and the edema subsided within a week and the eosinophil counts normalized within two weeks.

Matched MeSH terms: Eosinophilia/complications

Distribution of anti-Toxoplasma gondii antibodies among Orang Asli (aborigines) in Peninsular Malaysia

Hakim SL, Radzan T, Nazma M

Southeast Asian J Trop Med Public Health, 1994 Sep;25(3):485-9.

PMID: 7777912

The distribution of anti-toxoplasma antibodies among the aborigines in Malaysia and its association with other soil transmitted infections and eosinophilia were studied. A total of 415 serum samples were collected and tested by IFA test. Overall prevalence was 10.6%, lower than previously reported. The antibody titers showed a unimodal distribution peaking at 1:8 dilution. There was a higher proportion of high antibody titer (> 1:128) in the adult compared to the children with no significant difference in prevalence rate by sex. The pattern of infection does not differ from other soil transmitted infections and there was no association between raised Toxoplasma antibodies with eosinophilia.

Matched MeSH terms: Eosinophilia/complications

Filariasis due to Brugia malayi in West Malaysia. II. Skin test aspects

Dondero TJ, Ramachandran CP

Southeast Asian J Trop Med Public Health, 1972 Mar;3(1):25-30.

PMID: 5028861

Matched MeSH terms: Eosinophilia/complications

Fulltext A Prospective Study on the Prevalence, Extent of Disease and Outcome of Eosinophilic Gastroenteritis in Patients Presenting with Lower Abdominal Symptoms

Hui CK, Hui NK

Gut Liver, 2018 May 15;12(3):288-296.

PMID: 29212311 DOI: 10.5009/gnl17056

Background/Aims: The epidemiology of eosinophilic gastroenteritis remains unclear. We aim to determine the prevalence of eosinophilic gastroenteritis in patients with lower abdominal symptoms.

Methods: In a prospective study, colonoscopy was performed on 2,469 consecutive patients. Biopsies were taken from the terminal ileum and ascending, transverse, descending and sigmoid colon in all patients.

Results: Sixty-four of the 2,469 patients (2.6%) had eosinophilic gastroenteritis. Only five of the 64 patients (7.8%) with eosinophilic gastroenteritis had endoscopic mucosal abnormalities during colonoscopy. Six of these 64 patients (9.4%) had severe disease at presentation, and seven of these 64 patients (10.9%) required systemic steroid treatment. An elevated absolute peripheral eosinophil count was independently associated with severe disease at presentation (4/6 [66.7%] vs 3/58 [5.2%], p=0.005; odds ratio [OR], 25.320; 95% confidence interval [CI], 2.628 to 243.910), and severe disease at the time of presentation was independently associated with the use of systemic steroid treatment (6/7 [85.7%] vs 0/57 [0%], p=0.008; OR, 18.021; 95% CI, 2.163 to 150.152).

Conclusions: The prevalence of eosinophilic gastroenteritis is common, and patients usually present normal-appearing mucosa on colonoscopy. Those with severe disease at presentation usually have a raised absolute peripheral eosinophil count and should be commenced on systemic steroids as an initial therapy.

Matched MeSH terms: Eosinophilia/complications

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