title: Clinical profile of children with moderate-to-severe eosinophilia presenting to a tertiary hospital in Nepal.
abstract: Fifty children (mean age 8 years) with an absolute eosinophil count ranging from 1956 to 28,500 were studied in a tertiary hospital in Nepal. Most had multisystem involvement: 47 had constitutional symptoms; 38 had gastrointestinal symptoms; and 37 had respiratory symptoms. Abdominal pain, fever, cough and weight loss were the most common presentations while pleural effusion, ascites, pericardial effusion, abdominal nodes and high erythrocyte sedimentation rates were the common investigational findings.
authors: Department of Paediatrics, Patan Academy of HealthSciences, Patan, Nepal.shri_rishi@hotmail.com
authors: Shrijana
authors: S
authors: Shrestha
authors: Dipsal
authors: D
authors: Timila
authors: Utkarsh
authors: U
authors: Karki
authors: Ashis
authors: A
authors: Shrestha
authors: Shital
authors: S
authors: Bhandary
mesh_terms: D015746:Abdominal Pain / Q000209:etiology; D001201:Ascites / Q000209:etiology / Q000276:immunology; D002648:Child; D003371:Cough / Q000209:etiology; D004802:Eosinophilia / Q000150:complications* / Q000469:parasitology; D004804:Eosinophils; D005260:Female; D005334:Fever / Q000209:etiology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009390:Nepal; D010272:Parasitic Diseases / Q000150:complications*; D010490:Pericardial Effusion / Q000209:etiology / Q000276:immunology; D010996:Pleural Effusion / Q000209:etiology / Q000276:immunology; D062606:Tertiary Care Centers