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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Jun 12.
Published in final edited form as: Curr Allergy Asthma Rep. 2020 Jan 7;20(1):1. doi: 10.1007/s11882-020-0895-x

Table 2:

Causes of peripheral eosinophilia

Primary Clonal neoplasm
○ Myeloid and lymphoid neoplasms (rearrangement of PDGFRA, PDGFRB, FGFR1, PCM1-JAK2, ETV6-JAK2 or BCR-JAK2)
○ Chronic eosinophilic leukemia
○ Systemic Mastocytosis with clonally driven eosinophil proliferation
○ Other myeloproliferative process in which clonal eosinophil proliferation plays a role (ie: CML, AML, etc.)
Secondary Allergic
○ Allergic Bronchopulmonary Aspergillosis
○ Allergic Rhinitis
○ Asthma
○ Atopic Dermatitis
○ Drug allergy
Gastrointestinal
○ Eosinophilic GI disorders
○ Inflammatory Bowel Disease
○ Celiac
Hematologic / Oncologic
○ Graft versus Host Disease
○ Cytokine-driven eosinophil proliferation in Systemic Mastocytosis
○ Lymphocytic-variant Hypereosinophilic syndrome
Infectious
○ Parasitic
○ Fungal
○ HIV
Inflammatory
○ Eosinophilic granulomatosis with polyangiitis
○ Wells syndrome
○ Polyarteritis nodosum
○ Less commonly: sarcoidosis, rheumatoid arthritis, IgG4 disease
Immunologic
○ Gleich Syndrome
○ Hyper-IgE syndromes
○ Wiskott Aldrich Syndrome
○ Omenn’s Syndrome
○ Less commonly: ZAP70 deficiency, ALPS, LRBA deficiency, PGM2 deficiency
Respiratory
○ Acute or chronic eosinophilic pneumonia
Idiopathic No detectable cause despite investigation of secondary and primary causes