White Blood Cell Disorders and Platelets:: 5. Miscellaneous Granulocytic Cells

Eosinophilia Follow-Up

  • As mentioned on the previous page, high percentages of eosinophils may be present in the peripheral blood smears of patients with a variety of conditions--asthma, urticaria, Loeffler's syndrome, larval parasitic infections and in chronic eosinophilic leukemia.
  • One exception to the association of eosinophilia with parasitic infections is a fatal case of disseminated strongyloidiasis reported many years ago by Miale (Hematology--5th Edition, Mosby, pg. 776, 1977) in which the peripheral blood eosinophilia was masked by the administration of corticosteroids.

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