enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Löffler's syndrome - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Löffler's_syndrome

    If the cause is unknown, it is specified and called "simple pulmonary eosinophilia". Cardiac damage caused by the damaging effects of eosinophil granule proteins (e.g. major basic protein ) is known as Loeffler endocarditis and can be caused by idiopathic eosinophilia or eosinophilia in response to parasitic infection.

  3. Schistosomiasis - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schistosomiasis

    The granulomatous response is a cellular immune response mediated by CD4 + T cells, neutrophils, eosinophils, lymphocytes, macrophages, and monocytes, and this chronic inflammatory response elicited by the eggs can cause fibrosis, tissue destruction, and granuloma nodules that disrupt the functions of the organs involved.

  4. Angiostrongylus cantonensis - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angiostrongylus_cantonensis

    Angiostrongylus cantonensis is a nematode (roundworm) parasite that causes angiostrongyliasis, an infection that is the most common cause of eosinophilic meningitis in Southeast Asia and the Pacific Basin. [3] The nematode commonly resides in the pulmonary arteries of rats, giving it the common name rat lungworm. [4]

  5. Parasitic pneumonia - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parasitic_pneumonia

    Parasitic pneumonia is a type of pneumonia caused by parasites. Pneumonia is an inflammatory condition of the lungs, most commonly caused by bacteria or viruses. [ 1 ] Parasites are an uncommon cause of pneumonia, usually affecting immunocompromised individuals or those in underdeveloped countries. [ 2 ]

  6. Eosinophilia - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eosinophilia

    Based on their causes, hypereosinophilias can be sorted into subtypes. However, cases of eosinophilia, which exhibit eosinophil counts between 500 and 1,500/μL, may fit the clinical criteria for, and thus be regarded as falling into, one of these hypereosinophilia categories: the cutoff of 1,500/μL between hypereosinophilia and eosinophilia is somewhat arbitrary.

  7. Gongylonema pulchrum - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gongylonema_pulchrum

    Eosinophilia is noted in some patients. Gongylonemiasis is the affliction caused by this parasite, which is simply protracted discomfort or sensation of movement in the buccal, oral or gingival areas associated with a sensation of foreign body. Subjects commonly pull worms from their gums, tongue, lips, and inner cheeks after days and even ...

  8. Parasitic disease - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parasitic_disease

    A parasitic disease, also known as parasitosis, is an infectious disease caused by parasites. [1] Parasites are organisms which derive sustenance from its host while causing it harm. [ 2 ] The study of parasites and parasitic diseases is known as parasitology . [ 3 ]

  9. Schistosoma haematobium - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schistosoma_haematobium

    The body is covered by anucleate epidermal plates separated by epidermal ridges. The epidermal cells give off numerous hair-like cilia on the body surface. Epidermal plate is absent only at the extreme anterior called apical papilla, or terebratorium, which contains numerous sensory organelles.