title: The hypereosinophilic syndrome.
abstract: The hypereosinophilic syndrome groups together patients with idiopathic eosinophilia and diffuse organ infiltration with eosinophils. It appears to be a continuum of disease from the asymptomatic patient with skin and heart disease at one end to eosinophilic leukaemia at the other. A case is described of a young woman who presented with asthma, mononeuropathy multiplex and eosinophilia and subsequently developed eosinophilic gastroenteritis, vasculitis and probable myocarditis. The response to prednisolone has been pleasing.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001249:Asthma / Q000175:diagnosis*; D001853:Bone Marrow / Q000473:pathology; D004802:Eosinophilia / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000473:pathology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D009132:Muscles / Q000473:pathology; D010525:Peripheral Nerves / Q000473:pathology; D010523:Peripheral Nervous System Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis*; D011239:Prednisolone / Q000627:therapeutic use; D013577:Syndrome
chemical_list: D011239:Prednisolone