Skip to main content
. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: Immunol Allergy Clin North Am. 2015 Aug;35(3):439–452. doi: 10.1016/j.iac.2015.04.004

Table 2.

Selected clinical manifestations of sustained eosinophilia

Organ/system Manifestations Findings
Non-hematologic
General fatigue
Fever
Dermatologic pruritus urticaria
angioedema erythematous papules
Cardiac signs/symptoms of heart failure inflammatory/infiltrative cardiomyopathy
endomyocardial fibrosis, including
valvulopathy
signs/symptoms of systemic
embolization
mural platelet thrombi
Pulmonary cough, rhinitis
shortness of breath pleural effusion
pulmonary infiltrates
Gastrointestinal diarrhea, with or without blood eosinophilic colitis
dysphagia/regurgitation eosinophilic esophagitis/esophageal
eosinophilia
vomiting/dyspepsia/malabsorption eosinophilic gastroenteritis
Neurologic dysesthesia polyneuropathy
loss of vision optic neuritis
Musculoskeletal myalgias eosinophilic myositis/fascitis
Hematologic
Peripheral blood leukocytosis*
eosinophilia*
neutrophilia
basophilia§
left shift§
circulating blasts§
uni-or multilineage dysplasia§
Pallor anemia*
bruisability/thrombosis thrombocytopenia/thrombocytosis*
Reticulo-endothelial abdominal pain hepato-/splenomegaly§
hepatic/splenic infarct§
lymph node swelling superficial and/or deep adenopathy§
*

if severe, upfront bone marrow examination should be performed;

§

Upfront bone marrow examination must be performed.