Eosinophilia (> 6 %)
| Description | Slight eosinophilia: 400-1500/µl moderate eosinophilie: 1500-5000/µl marked eosinophilia: > 5000/µl Basic evaluations: Full blood count, ESR or CRP, total IgE, GOT, GPT, gamma-GT, AP, bilirubin, urine status- and sedimentation Additional evaluations as per clinical suspicion: Infection serology: Chronic hepatitis B and C, echinokokkus, ameba, lamblia, toxocara canis (↑↑), schistosoma, toxoplasma, trichines, filarial Pathogen evidence: Parasites in the stool (taenia, ascaris, ancylostoma and others), in the blood (malaria), in the BAL (pneumocystis carinii, aspergillosis), late phase of bacterial infection Allergy: Total IgE, antigen-specific IgE-antibodies, antigen-specific IgG-antibodies Hematology: Bone marrow cytology- and histology (CML, AML, acute eosinophilia-leukaemia, All), Philadelphia-chromosomes- or bcr-abl-PCR, NHL Toxicology: Medication anamnesis- and screening in the urine (sulfonamides, penicillin, nitrofurantoin, thiazides and others Immunology: RF, ANA, ANCA and others Endocrinology: TSH, ACTH Please also refer to sections “eosinophilic pneumonia, allergic granulomatous arteritis (Churg-Strauss syndrome) |
