conclusions although it is a rare entity, ec should be kept in mind in the differential diagnosis of patients presenting with dysuria, hematuria and any kind of acquired voiding dysfunction, including frequency, pollakiuria and incontinence. case presentation we present a 17-year-old male patient, who was continent night and day in his childhood, and was admitted to our clinic for complaints of...

Eosinophilic lung diseases comprise eosinophilic pneumonia, which may present with chronic or acute onset, or as Löffler syndrome. The diagnosis of eosinophilic pneumonia relies on clinical imaging and the demonstration of alveolar eosinophilia. Lung biopsy is generally not necessary. Peripheral blood eosinophilia is common but may be absent at presentation in idiopathic acute eosinophilic pneu...

This is a report of a case of eosinophilic granuloma involving the second cervical vertebra in a 33-year-old woman. There have been 32 case reports in the literature describing eosinophilic granuloma presenting as cervical spine disease. Due to its intimate relation to the central nervous system, the opportunity for neurological sequelae and neurosurgical intervention is common in cervical eosi...

We report a case of unilateral eosinophilic pneumonia secondary to balsalazide monotherapy for ulcerative colitis. After commencing balsalazide, the patient presented with a history of cough, progressive dyspnoea and lethargy. Blood counts revealed peripheral eosinophilia. Her chest radiograph showed left-sided infiltration, and high-resolution computerised tomography demonstrated widespread no...

BACKGROUND Non-eosinophilic nasal polyps (NPs) show less inflammatory changes and are less commonly associated with lower airway inflammatory disorders such as asthma, compared with eosinophilic NPs. However, the development of non-eosinophilic NPs which is a predominant subtype in Asian population still remains unclear. METHODS A total of 81 patients (45 with non-eosinophilic NPs and 36 with...

INTRODUCTION Chronic eosinophilic pneumonia is an idiopathic disorder of unknown etiology. Corticosteroid treatment provides a good response but recurrence frequently occurs after tapering of corticosteroid. Chronic eosinophilic pneumonia occurs predominantly in middle-aged women and non-cigarette smokers, which leads to the speculation that environmental antigens, particularly in the home, con...

Eosinophilic esophagitis is a chronic inflammatory disease characterized by eosinophilic infiltration of the esophageal mucosa. Food and aero-allergens are involved in its pathogenesis. Dysphagia and food impaction are the dominant symptoms in adult with eosinophilic esophagitis. However, a wide range of symptoms has been noticed such as chest pain or gastro-esophageal reflux disease-like sympt...

Eosinophilic granuloma was formerly mistaken for “eosinophilic myeloma” (Finzi 1929) or for “osteomyelitis with eosinophilic reaction” (Schairer 1938). It was described as a new distinct entity by Otani and Ehrlich (1940) under the denomination solitary granuloma of bone and by Jaffe and Lichtenstein (1944) as eosinophilic granuloma ofbone. Farber(l94l) and Green and Farber (1942) showed that e...

osinophilia is defined as the presence of more than 500 eosinophils/ L in the peripheral blood, and may be accompanied by eosinophil infiltration in tissues. Focal eosinophilic infiltration in the lungs and liver is relatively common and is often associated with a parasitic infection, drug hypersensitivity, allergic diseases, collagen vascular diseases, and internal malignancies such as Hodgkin...