Haematology Watch

 EOSINOPHILIA


BENIGN:

      Secondary:

         -Allergy:

               Bronchial asthma

               Hay fever

               Food sensitivity

         -Parasitic infections:

            Entamoeba histolytica

                Ascaris lumbricoides

                Ancylostoma duodenale

                Taenia saginata

          -Skin disorders:

               Atopic dermatitis

               Urticaria

               Angioedema

               Psoriasis

               Pemphigus

           -Drug-sensitivity

           -Hodgkin lymphoma

           -Graft versus host disease

           -Metastatic malignancy with tumour necrosis

           -Pulmonary syndromes (Eosinophilic pneumonia. Loeffler's syndrome)

      Primary:

           Hypereosinophilic syndrome


MALIGNANT:

           AML-M4 Eo

           AML with inv (16), or with t(16;16)

           ALL with t(5;14)

           Myeloid and Lymphoid neoplasms with eosinophilia and abnormalities of PDGFRA, PDGFRB, and FGFR1

           Chronic eosinophilic leukaemia, NOS

           Systemic mastocytosis