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Fulltext Cryptogenic pulmonary eosinophilia--a case report

Zainudin BM, Ismail O

Singapore Med J, 1990 Dec;31(6):629-31.

A 44-year-old Indian housewife presented with prolonged cough, intermittent fever, loss of weight and shortness of breath on exertion. Physical examination revealed a thin lady with fine crackles on both lungs. Marked eosinophilia and elevated erythrocyte sedimentation rate were noted on peripheral blood. Chest radiograph showed characteristic bilateral infiltrates affecting the periphery of both lungs. Treatment with corticosteroid resulted in dramatic improvement in symptoms, signs and radiographic changes within a few days.

Matched MeSH terms: Pulmonary Eosinophilia/diagnosis*; Pulmonary Eosinophilia/radiography

Tropical eosinophilia; some atypical cases of clinical interest

D'ABRERA VS

Med J Malaya, 1958 Mar;12(3):559-62.

PMID: 13565029

Matched MeSH terms: Eosinophilia*

The filarial complement fixation test in eosinophilic lung (a preliminary report)

Danaraj TJ, D'Silva LS, Schacher JF

Proceedings of the Alumni Association of Malaya, 1957;10:109-116.

Matched MeSH terms: Eosinophilia

Aetiology of tropical eosinophilia

Webb JKG

The Indian Journal of Pediatrics, 1960;27:147-157.

DOI: 10.1007/BF02756459

1. The pathological changes in the lung, liver and lymph-nodes of typical cases of tropical pulmonary eosinophilia are described. 2. Microfilariae have been demonstrated in the centre of nodules in each of these tissues, suggesting that direct invasion by these organisms is the cause of the lesion in this disease. 3. Cases have been encountered with lymph-node and hepatic, but without lung involvement. The lesions in these cases are similar to those seen in the lung, and microfilariae are present. A plea is made to enlarge the concept of tropical eosinophilia to include such cases, and the same time to restrict it to those in which a filarial infection is proved or suspected. 4. Microfilariae recovered from lymph-nodes have been provisionally identified as W. bancrofti-type, but on the analogy of findings in Malaya, it is suggested that these may be of animal origin and that zoonotic filariasis remains the most likely explanation of tropical eosinophilia. © 1960 Dr. K C Chaudhuri Foundation.

Matched MeSH terms: Eosinophilia; Eosinophilia/etiology

The treatment of eosinophilic lung (tropical eosinophilia) with Hetrazan (a preliminary report)

Danaraj TJ

Proceedings of the Alumni Association of Malaya, 1956;9:172-187.

Matched MeSH terms: Eosinophilia

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