Esophagitis, Eosinophilic, 1; Eoe1
Description
Eosinophilic esophagitis (EOE) has an incidence of approximately 1 per 10,000 people. Symptoms include difficulty feeding, failure to thrive, vomiting, epigastric or chest pain, dysphagia, and food impaction. Individuals with EOE are predominantly young males with a high rate of atopic disease, and the diagnosis is made by endoscopy and biopsy findings of isolated eosinophils in the esophagus (summary by Rothenberg et al., 2010).
Clinical Features
Top most frequent phenotypes and symptoms related to Esophagitis, Eosinophilic, 1; Eoe1
- Failure to thrive
- Edema
- Dysphagia
- Vomiting
- Gastroesophageal reflux
- Chest pain
- Esophagitis
- Esophageal stricture
- Esophageal stenosis
- Epigastric pain
Incidence and onset information
— Based on the latest data available Esophagitis, Eosinophilic, 1; Eoe1 have a estimated prevalence of 40.08 per 100k in Europe.
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Alternate names
Esophagitis, Eosinophilic, 1; Eoe1 Is also known as esophagitis, eosinophilic;ee;eoe.
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