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An overview of eosinophilic lung diseases

Eosinophilic lung diseases

Review Article doi:10.4328/ECAM.72 Printed: 25.04.2026 Eu Clin Anal Med 2026;4(1):12-14

Authors

1, 1, 2
Affiliations

1Department of Chest Diseases, Gulhane Military Medical Faculty, Gazi University, Ankara, Türkiye.

2Department of Hematology, Faculty of Medicine, Gazi University, Ankara, Türkiye.

Corresponding Author

Nesrin Ocal

nesrinbaygin@yahoo.com

+905055044715

Abstract

Eosinophilic lung diseases describes a variety of lung diseases which can be idiopathic (simple pulmonary eosinophilia, acute eosinophilic pneumonia and chronic eosinophilic pneumonia and hypereosinophilic syndrome), secondary to various clinicalentities (to drugs, parasites, fungal infections, irradiation or toxic product) or associated with diffuse lung diseases (connective tissue diseases and some neoplasms). Asthma, which is the most common cause of pulmonary eosinophilia, is frequently concomitant and can be a prerequisite, as in allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis (ABPA) and Churg-Strauss syndrome. Herein, we aimed to review the clinical findings and differential diagnosis of eosinophilic lung diseases.

Keywords

eosinophilic lung diseaseeosinophiliadifferential diagnosis

Declarations

Animal and Human Rights Statement

All procedures performed in this study were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki Declaration and its later amendments.

Informed Consent

Informed consent was obtained from all participants.

Conflict of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

Funding

None.

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Nesrin Ocal, Ramazan Ocal, Deniz Dogan. An overview of eosinophilic lung diseases. Eu Clin Anal Med 2026;4(1):12-14. doi:10.4328/ECAM.72

Received:
25.11.2015
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05.12.2015
Published Online:
01.01.2016
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