Table 1: Classification of the eosinophilic lung diseases.

Classification of the eosinophilic lung diseases

1. Eosinophilic lung disease of undetermined cause

a) Solitary

Idiopathic chronic eosinophlic pneumonia

Idiopathic acute eosinophlic pneumonia

b) Associated with systemic disease

Churg-Strauss Syndrome

Hypereosinophilic Syndromes

2. Eosinophilic Lung Disease of determined cause

a) Eosinophilic pneumonias of parasitic origin

Tropical eosinophilia

Ascaris pneumonia

Larva migrans syndrome

Strongyloides stercoralis infection

Eosinophilic pneumonias in other parasitic infectious

b) Eosinophilic pneumonias in other infectious causes

c) Allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis and related syndromes

Allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis

Other allergic bronchopulmonary syndromes associated with fungi or yeasts

Bronchocentric granulomatosis

d) Drug, toxic agents and radiation-induced eosinophilic pneumonias

Drugs

Toxic agents

Eosinophilic pneumonia induced by radiation therapy to the breast

3. Miscellaneous lung diseases with possible associated esosinophilia

Organizing pneumonia

Asthma and eosinophilic bronchitis

Idiopathic intestitial pneumonias

Langherans cell granulomatosis

Lung transplantation

Other lung diseases with occasional eosinophilia

Sarcoidosis

Paraneoplastic eosinophilic pneumonia