Summary
Differentials
Common
- Ascariasis
- Strongyloidiasis
- Schistosomiasis
- Trichinellosis
- Pemphigus
- Bullous pemphigoid
- Asthma
- Eczema
- Allergic rhinitis
Uncommon
- Clonorchiasis
- Fascioliasis
- Fasciolopsiasis
- Opisthorchiasis
- Filariasis
- Gnathostomiasis
- Toxocariasis
- Paragonimiasis
- Ancylostoma caninum infestation
- Coccidioidomycosis
- Pemphigoid gestationis
- Drug hypersensitivity
- Drug rash with eosinophilia and systemic symptoms (DRESS)
- Allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis
- Eosinophilic granulomatosis with polyangiitis
- Eosinophilic oesophagitis
- Eosinophilic gastroenteritis
- Eosinophilic cellulitis (Wells syndrome)
- Chronic eosinophilic leukaemia
- Other leukaemias
- Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma
- Hodgkin's lymphoma
- Non-haematological malignancy-associated hypereosinophilia
- Lymphocytic variant of hypereosinophilic syndrome
- Idiopathic hypereosinophilic syndrome
- Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome
- Job's syndrome
- Hyperimmunoglobulin E syndrome
- Severe combined immune deficiency due to adenosine deaminase deficiency
- Omenn's syndrome
- immune dysregulation, polyendocrinopathy, enteropathy, X-linked (IPEX) syndrome
- Autoimmune lymphoproliferative syndrome (ALPS)
- Loeys-Dietz syndrome
- Comel-Netherton syndrome
- Severe dermatitis, multiple allergies, and metabolic wasting (SAM) syndrome
- Muscular sarcocystosis
- Cystoisospora belli (formerly Isospora belli) infection
- Anisakiasis
- Loiasis
Contributors
Authors
Barbara J. Bain, MBBS, FRACP, FRCPath
Professor of Diagnostic Haematology
St Mary's Hospital Campus
Imperial College London
London
UK
Disclosures
BJB is an author of a number of references cited in this topic.
James Uprichard, MBBS, BSc, PhD, FRCP, FRCPath
Consultant Haematologist
Department of Haematology
St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
London
UK
Disclosures
JU declares that he has no competing interests.
Peer reviewers
Zeinab Afify, MD
Professor of Pediatrics
Department of Pediatrics
Division of Pediatric Hematology Oncology
University of Utah
UT
Disclosures
ZA declares that she has no competing interests.
Jan Cools, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Molecular and Developmental Genetics
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Leuven
Belgium
Disclosures
JC is an author of a reference cited in this topic.
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