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ArticleJournal of family medicine and primary care2021

Pediatric hypereosinophilia and toxoplasma: Peregrination beyond facileness.

Aaqib Z Banday, Dharmagat Bhattarai, Naveen Bhagat, Sreejesh Sreedharanunni, Sumeeta Khurana, Deepti Suri

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Article in Journal of family medicine and primary care, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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What it found

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Aaqib Z BandayAllergy Immunology Unit, Departments of Pediatrics, Advanced Pediatrics Centre, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh, India.
Dharmagat BhattaraiAllergy Immunology Unit, Departments of Pediatrics, Advanced Pediatrics Centre, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh, India.
Naveen BhagatAllergy Immunology Unit, Departments of Pediatrics, Advanced Pediatrics Centre, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh, India.
Sreejesh SreedharanunniHematology, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh, India.
Sumeeta KhuranaParasitology, Research Block-A, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh, India.
Deepti SuriAllergy Immunology Unit, Departments of Pediatrics, Advanced Pediatrics Centre, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh, India.
Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research · IN

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Evaluation of pediatric hypereosinophilia (HE) is challenging, especially in the tropical developing countries, as appropriate diagnostic facilities may be lacking, parasitic/helminthic infections are common, and existing data on the etiology of severe eosinophilia are sparse. Second, data on long-term follow-up of these children including the temporal course of eosinophilia are also scarce. Besides, questions regarding the coexistence of multiple etiologies and their association with the severity of HE are largely unexplored. These challenges and questions often lead to diagnostic and therapeutic dilemmas. We highlight these difficulties utilizing a real-life clinical description. We emphasize the need for long-term follow-up of such children as HE may be the combinatorial effect of multiple etiologies, rather than a single cause. We also describe an unusual association of severe eosinophilia in a child with toxoplasmosis that was treated successfully with 8-week combination therapy with azithromycin and cotrimoxazole (sulfadiazine and pyrimethamine were not available).

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AzithromycinCotrimoxazoleHypereosinophiliaSteroidToxoplasma

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