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Report of Two Cases

ISRAEL FOND, M.D.; PAOLO RAVENNA, M.D.

Arch Intern Med. 1948;82(5):422-430.

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OF THE many diseases contracted by Americans in distant countries, tropical eosinophilic asthma seems to be the least known, as only 3 cases have been reported.¹ The subject of this study is a brief description of the disease and a report of 2 additional cases in which the condition had been treated as bronchial asthma for years and in which recovery occurred a few days after specific treatment with neoarsphenamine U. S. P.

DEFINITION

Tropical eosinophilic asthma is a disease of tropical and semitropical regions. It is characterized by chronic bronchitis with nonseasonal nocturnal paroxysmal cough, with dyspnea, leukocytosis and high eosinophilia. This disease has been described under various names.² We suggest the name tropical eosinophilic asthma because it emphasizes the main morbid manifestations.

HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION

Tropical eosinophilic asthma was first described by Weingarten^2a in India in 1943. Since then it has been recognized as a . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
CHICAGO

From the section on medicine of the Outpatient Treatment Department, Veterans Administration, Regional Office, and the Department of Medicine, Northwestern School of Medicine, and the University of Illinois College of Medicine.

Footnotes
Published with the permission of the Chief Medical Director, Department of Medicine, Veterans Administration, who assumes no responsibility for the opinions expressed or the conclusions drawn by the authors.

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