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In certain diseases, namely those having an allergic, parasitic, bacterial, or mycobacterial origin, an increase in the concentration of eosinophils in the blood often occurs. In others, for example autoimmune and neoplastic disorders, it seldom occurs. Depending on its size, the increase is called eosinophilia or hypereosinophilia.
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Thierfelder, K., Just, H., Bross, K., Löhr, G.W., Wittekind, C., Adler, C.P. (1983). Echocardiographic Findings in Patients with Hypereosinophilia. In: Just, H., Schuster, H.P. (eds) Myocarditis Cardiomyopathy. International Boehringer Mannheim Symposia. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-68608-5_9
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