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==Overview== | ==Overview== | ||
Loeffler syndrome must be differentiated from other diseases that cause pulmonary eosinophilia, such as Churg-Strauss, drug and toxin-induced eosinophilic lung diseases, other helminthic and fungal infection related eosinophilic lung diseases, and nonhelminthic infections such as Coccidioidomycosis, and Mycobacterium tuberculosis, . | Loeffler syndrome must be differentiated from other diseases that cause pulmonary eosinophilia, such as Churg-Strauss, drug and toxin-induced eosinophilic lung diseases, other helminthic and fungal infection related eosinophilic lung diseases, and nonhelminthic infections such as Coccidioidomycosis, and Mycobacterium tuberculosis, . | ||
Revision as of 22:57, 14 May 2019
Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]; Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Soroush Seifirad, M.D.[2]
Overview
Loeffler syndrome must be differentiated from other diseases that cause pulmonary eosinophilia, such as Churg-Strauss, drug and toxin-induced eosinophilic lung diseases, other helminthic and fungal infection related eosinophilic lung diseases, and nonhelminthic infections such as Coccidioidomycosis, and Mycobacterium tuberculosis, .
Differentiating Loeffler syndrome from other pulmonary eosinophilia syndromes on the basis of etiology.
| Diseases | Clinical manifestations | Para-clinical findings | Gold standard | Additional findings | ||||||||||||
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| Symptoms | Physical examination | |||||||||||||||
| Lab Findings | Imaging | Histopathology | ||||||||||||||
| Symptom 1 | Symptom 2 | Symptom 3 | Physical exam 1 | Physical exam 2 | Physical exam 3 | Lab 1 | Lab 2 | Lab 3 | Imaging 1 | Imaging 2 | Imaging 3 | |||||
| Helminthic and fungal infection-related eosinophilic lung diseases | Transpulmonary passage of larvae (Loffler's syndrome) |
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| Tropical pulmonary eosinophilia |
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| Allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis | ||||||||||||||||
| Heavy hematogenous seeding with helminths |
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| Pulmonary parenchymal invasion |
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| Nonhelminthic infections | Coccidioidomycosis | |||||||||||||||
| Mycobacterium tuberculosis | ||||||||||||||||
| Eosinophilic granulomatosis with polyangiitis (Churg-Strauss) | ||||||||||||||||
| Drug- and toxin-induced eosinophilic lung diseases |
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| Acute eosinophilic pneumonia | ||||||||||||||||
| Chronic eosinophilic pneumonia | ||||||||||||||||
| Diseases | Symptom 1 | Symptom 2 | Symptom 3 | Physical exam 1 | Physical exam 2 | Physical exam 3 | Lab 1 | Lab 2 | Lab 3 | Imaging 1 | Imaging 2 | Imaging 3 | Histopathology | Gold standard | Additional findings | |
| Differential Diagnosis 7 | ||||||||||||||||
| Differential Diagnosis 7 | ||||||||||||||||
| Differential Diagnosis 7 | ||||||||||||||||
| Differential Diagnosis 7 | ||||||||||||||||