diagnostic criteria for acute eosinophilic pneumonia


Diagnostic algorithm for eosinophilic pneumonia.

The initial diagnostic question is whether there are extrapulmonary manifestations. ∗Conditions commonly associated with asthma or airflow obstruction. ABPA, allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis; AEP, acute eosinophilic pneumonia; CEP, chronic eosinophilic pneumonia; DRESS, drug reaction with eosinophilia and systemic symptoms; EGPA, eosinophilic granulomatosis with polyangiitis; HES, hypereosinophilic syndrome; HOB, hypereosinophilic obliterative bronchiolitis; IAEP, idiopathic acute eosinophilic pneumonia; ICEP, idiopathic chronic eosinophilic pneumonia.1

Footnotes

  1. Murray and Nadel Ch 96 Eosinophilic Lung Disease