Infectious Disease · Infectious disease / Tropical medicine
Tropical pulmonary eosinophilia syndrome
also: TPE
Eosinophilic lung disease from filarial hypersensitivity.
- Specialty
- Infectious Disease
- Subspecialty
- Infectious disease / Tropical medicine
- Sex & age distribution
- Male: affected, male predominance; Female: affected; Children: yes
- Gene(s) involved
- None recorded
- Alternative names & eponyms
- TPE
Etiology & mechanism
Immune response to microfilariae.
Gene(s) involved (0)
No gene recorded for this syndrome.
Symptoms & signs (4)
In plain terms, someone with Tropical pulmonary eosinophilia syndrome may experience the following — click any to explore related syndromes:
Same gene(s)
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Overlapping symptoms
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Shares symptoms with
2 shared
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dyspnea, wheeze
2 shared
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dyspnea, wheeze
1 shared
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dyspnea
1 shared
Cardiorenal syndrome
dyspnea
1 shared
Chilaiditi syndrome
dyspnea
1 shared
Eisenmenger syndrome
dyspnea
1 shared
Fat embolism syndrome
dyspnea
1 shared
Goodpasture syndrome
dyspnea
1 shared
Hepatopulmonary syndrome
dyspnea
1 shared
Holiday heart syndrome
dyspnea
Shares genes with
None.
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