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Pediatric hypereosinophilic syndrome (HES) differs from adult HES.

Katz HT, Haque SJ, Hsieh FH

Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH 44195, USA.

The idiopathic hypereosinophilic syndrome (HES) developed in a 15-year-old boy who presented with colitis, cough, rash, and hepatitis. Molecular analysis failed to demonstrate the Fip1-like1-Platelet Derived Growth Factor Receptor alpha chain (FIP1L1-PDGFRA) mutation described in adult patients with HES. There are significant clinical differences between the pediatric and adult presentations of HES.

Published 12 January 2005 in J Pediatr, 146(1): 134-6.
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