Simple pulmonary eosinophilia (Loeffler's syndrome)

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Simple pulmonary eosinophilia (Loeffler's syndrome)

Simple pulmonary eosinophilia is inflammation of the lungs associated with an increase ineosinophils, a type of white blood cell.

Most cases of simple pulmonary eosinophiliaare due to an allergic reaction of some sort, either from a drug, such as sulfonamide,or parasitic infection, such as that caused bythe worm Ascaris lumbricoides.Other parasitesmay also cause the syndrome.

Murray JF, Nadel JA. Eosinophilic Lung Diseases. In: Textbook of Respiratory Medicine. 3rd ed. W. B. Saunders Company, 2000; 1761-1771.

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