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ArticleCureus2022

A Diagnosis of Idiopathic Hypereosinophilic Syndrome With Skin Involvement in a Patient Presenting With Lymphadenopathy and Rash.

Nishanth Sekar, Maheswaran Umakanth

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Article in Cureus, 2022. 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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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

0 citing papers in PubMed, 1 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Nishanth SekarInternal Medicine, Faculty of Health Care Sciences, The Eastern University, Chenkalady, LKA.
Maheswaran UmakanthClinical Medicine, Teaching Hospital Batticaloa, Batticaloa, LKA.
Eastern University · USTeaching Hospital Batticaloa · LK

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Idiopathic hypereosinophilic syndrome is a rare entity where the diagnosis is made after all the probable causes of hypereosinophilia are excluded. The characteristic organ involvement includes the heart, nervous system, lung, and gastrointestinal tract. The mainstay of treatment is corticosteroids. Patients who are unresponsive to the steroids require immunomodulatory therapy that includes imatinib, mepolizumab, and in some resistant cases alemtuzumab. We describe a case of idiopathic hypereosinophilic syndrome with skin involvement without other organ infiltration in a previously unevaluated South Asian male who responded well to the initiation of steroid therapy.

Indexed as

cervical lymphadenopathyheart failurehypereosinophilia syndromeimatinib mesylatesystemic steroids

Identifiers

PMID35494909
PMCPMC9045841
OpenAlexW4221077019

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