BACKGROUND: Mast cells exert a substantial role in gastrointestinal allergic diseases. Therefore, it is reasonable to presume that mast cell may aid diagnosis in eosinophilic gastroenteropathy. OBJECTIVE: To evaluate whether mast cell count in the esophageal epithelium can discriminate eosinophilic esophagitis, proton-pump inhibitor (PPI)-responsive eosinophilic esophagitis and gastroesopha...

In some patients, eosinophilic gastroenteritis(EG) occurs in those with food allergy. We experienced a non-atopic asthmatic who had an EG associated with food allergy to fish and eggs, and blood eosinophilia. A skin prick test and RAST to causative food allergens showed a negative result. A fiber-optic endoscopic biopsy from the gastric mucosa showed an intense eosinophilic infiltration. We cou...

Allergy and eosinophilia in the gastrointestinal (GI) tract are not equivalent. GI eosinophilia is associated with infections (parasites), nutritional deficiencies, inflammatory processes, neoplasias, and systemic disorders. However, in addition to eosinophilia, other histologic changes usually accompany the increased number of eosinophils in most of these conditions. In contrast, there is a gr...

samples of formalin fixed gastrointestinal organs of three month ostrich chicks were submitted to the department of pathology, razi vaccine and serum research institute. histologically hepatitis and pancreatitis with large eosinophilic intra nuclear inclusion bodies were prominent in hepatic and pancreatic cells. these inclusions were suspected as adenovirus inclusion body hepatitis (ibh) in va...

Eosinophilic gastroenteritis is a rare disease that is characterized by eosinophil infiltration in one or multiple segments of the gastrointestinal tract. The etiology of this condition remains unknown. Eosinophilic gastroenteritis has heterogeneous clinical manifestations that depend upon the location and depth of infiltration in the gastrointestinal tract, and eosinophilia may or may not be p...

Abstract Purpose of review This provides an overview recent developments in the field eosinophilic gastritis (EG) and duodenitis (EoD) with emphasis on diagnostic criteria, clinical manifestation available or emerging treatments. Recent findings Eosinophilic gastrointestinal diseases such as EG EoD are chronic inflammatory conditions symptoms increased density mucosal cells. data suggest associ...

OBJECTIVES Eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE) is becoming increasingly more common, but the prevalence of other eosinophilic gastrointestinal disorders (EGIDs) is unknown. Our objective was to estimate the prevalence of eosinophilic gastritis, gastroenteritis, and colitis in the United States. METHODS We used the IMS Health LifeLink PharMetrics Plus Claims Database, data representative of a US na...

There are two lesions which are often confused despite their quite distinct clinical and pathological differences: the inflammatory fibroid polyp and eosinophilic gastroenteritis. Other eosinophilic lesions likely to be encountered in the gut also pose problems of differential diagnosis.

The paper describes a clinical case of primary eosinophilic enterocolitis in a 41-year-old female patent. It presents a brief review of the literature on the problem of primary eosinophil-associated gastrointestinal diseases.