Eosinophilic Lung Diseases

David J. Jackson is an Associate Professor of Respiratory Medicine at King’s College London (London, UK) and Clinical Director of Guy’s Severe Asthma Centre, Guy’s & St Thomas’ NHS Trust (London, UK), a regional unit for severe asthma, eosinophilic granulomatosis with polyangiitis and other eosinophilic lung diseases. Michael E. Wechsler is Professor of Medicine in the Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine at National Jewish Health (NJH) in Denver (CO, USA), Director of the NJH/Cohen Family Asthma Institute (Denver) and Associate Vice President for Innovation and Industry Relations at NJH.

An introduction to eosinophils and their biology; Differential diagnosis of pulmonary eosinophilia; Biomarkers of eosinophilic inflammation; Imaging; Eosinophilic asthma; Eosinophilic COPD; Allergic fungal diseases in the upper and lower airways; Eosinophilic pneumonias; Hypereosinophilic syndromes and lung involvement; Eosinophilic granulomatosis with polyangiitis; Eosinophils and airway nerves in asthma; Respiratory viruses and eosinophilic airway inflammation; Eosinophils as potential mediators of autoimmunity; Safety of eosinophil depletion; Future prospects of translational and clinical eosinophil research