Tropical eosinophilia presenting with neurological features.

Tropical eosinophilia presenting with neurological features.

Tropical Pulmonary Eosinophilia with Eosinophilic Leukemoid Reaction

A 7 year-old male presented with recurrent fever, cough and respiratory distress for over last 2 years. Based on extremely high eosinophil count, high Immunoglobulin E, increase in eosinophilic precursors in bone marrow, and positive antigen test for Wuchereria bancrofti, a diagnosis of Tropical Pulmonary Eosinophilia with Eosinophilic Leukemoid Reaction was made. Complete recovery was achieved...

Tropical eosinophilia treated with cortisone.

Twenty-four subjects of tropical eosinophilia were treated with ACTH and a detailed paper1 giving the methods employed and the results already have been presented in this Journal. The present study to evaluate the place of cortisone in the treatment of tropical eosinophilia was planned on entirely similar lines. Cortisone acetate (Cortone, Merck) was administered orally over a 10day period afte...

Tropical Eosinophilia

a search was made for the existence of tropical eosinophilia among the patients of this hospital. It would have been an enormous task if every case with a complaint of chest symptoms was subjected to rr-ray investigations and blood counts, so a plan was hit upon, which was as follows. It is the routine of this hospital to have a thick smear of blood examined for malarial parasites for each pati...

Tropical Eosinophilia