Table 2.

Allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis diagnostic criteria

Diagnostic criteria	Number of patients* (%)
Asthma	42 (100)
Type I skin test to Aspergillus	41 (97.6)
Peripheral eosinophilia	42 (100)
Radiographic pulmonary infiltrates	40 (95.2)
Central bronchiectasis on HRCT thorax	14 (33.3)
Elevated total serum IgE	16 (38.1)
Precipitating antibodies to Aspergillus	18 (42.9)
Aspergillus specific IgE and IgG	30 (71.4)
All eight criteria	13 (31)
Four criteria	42 (100)

Total number of patients, N = 42