Eosinophilic Gastroenteritis
Differential Diagnosis
Eosinophilic GI disorders by location
- Eosinophils may be numerous in other diseases
- Drug related gastroenteritis must be ruled out clinically
- Hypereosinophilic syndrome
- Requires >1500 eosinophils / microliter
- Parasitic disease must be ruled out by stool examination
- Crohn disease
- May contain many eosinophils in the infiltrate but they do not predominate
- Milk protein enteropathy must be ruled out clinically, especially in infants
- Systemic diseases
- Churg Strauss vasculitis
- Polyarteritis nodosa
- Scleroderma
- Stevens-Johnson syndrome
- Graft versus host disease
- Inflammatory fibroid polyp
