Talk:Tropical pulmonary eosinophilia
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Work needed
I've done a quick tidy up but there's much more room for improvement. Here's my thoughts:
- It needs a better definition, more broad than a description of symptoms. eg TPE is an inflammatory condition of the lungs which occurs asa aresult of some infectious conditions or some such.
- Expand symptoms, diagnosis and treatment sections
- Sections on pathogenesis, epidemiology, natural history, pathologic features
- Images - such as filaria, pulmonary histology etc.
Mattopaedia Say G'Day! 10:57, 6 October 2010 (UTC)
I edited a nice improvement for this article.
"Tropical pulmonary eosinophilia is a rare but well recognised syndrome characterised by pulmonary interstitial infiltrates and marked peripheral eosinophilia.. [1] This condition is more widely recognised and promptly diagnosed in filariasis-endemic regions, such as the Indian subcontinent, Africa, Asia and South America. In non-endemic countries, patients are commonly thought to have bronchial asthma. [2] [3] Chronic symptoms may delay the diagnosis by up to 5 years. Cite error: The <ref> tag has too many names (see the help page). after this second mention of a reference. So I couldn't post the whole improvement. Seattledoc (talk) 06:36, 9 March 2011 (UTC) seattledoc
References
- ^ Yong MK, Marshall CL & Eisen DP. Tropical pulmonary eosinophilia: a rare cause of cough in immigrants to Australia. Med J Australia 2007; 187 (7): 416-418. PMID:17908009.
- ^ Boggild AK, Keystone JS, Kain KC. Tropical pulmonary eosinophilia: a case series in a setting of nonendemicity. Clin Infect Dis 2004; 39: 1123-1128. PMID:15486834.
- ^ Jiva TI, Poe RH. Tropical pulmonary eosinophilia masquerading as acute bronchial asthma. Respiration 1996; 63: 55-58. PMID:8833995.