Eosinophilic lung diseases

Med Clin North Am. 2011 Nov;95(6):1163-87. doi: 10.1016/j.mcna.2011.08.006.

Abstract

Accurate diagnosis of eosinophilic lung diseases is essential to optimizing patient outcomes, but remains challenging. Signs and symptoms frequently overlap among the disorders, and because these disorders are infrequent, expertise is difficult to acquire. Still, these disorders are not rare, and most clinicians periodically encounter patients with one or more of the eosinophilic lung diseases and need to understand how to recognize, diagnose, and manage these diseases. This review focuses on the clinical features, general diagnostic workup, and management of the eosinophilic lung diseases.

Publication types

  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Aspergillosis, Allergic Bronchopulmonary / diagnosis
  • Aspergillosis, Allergic Bronchopulmonary / physiopathology
  • Bronchoscopy
  • Churg-Strauss Syndrome / diagnosis
  • Churg-Strauss Syndrome / diagnostic imaging
  • Churg-Strauss Syndrome / drug therapy
  • Churg-Strauss Syndrome / pathology
  • Comorbidity
  • Diagnosis, Differential
  • Disease Progression
  • Eosinophilia / classification
  • Eosinophilia / diagnosis*
  • Humans
  • Hypereosinophilic Syndrome / classification
  • Hypereosinophilic Syndrome / diagnosis
  • Hypereosinophilic Syndrome / drug therapy
  • Hypereosinophilic Syndrome / immunology
  • Lung Diseases / classification
  • Lung Diseases / diagnosis*
  • Lung Diseases, Interstitial / diagnosis
  • Pulmonary Alveoli / pathology
  • Pulmonary Eosinophilia / classification
  • Pulmonary Eosinophilia / diagnosis
  • Pulmonary Eosinophilia / epidemiology
  • Pulmonary Eosinophilia / pathology
  • Respiratory Tract Infections / diagnosis
  • Respiratory Tract Infections / microbiology
  • Rheumatic Diseases / diagnosis
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed / methods