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Luke Chen

Luke Chen

Hematologist and Professor of Medicine at Dalhousie University specializing in rare inflammatory diseases

Jun 26, 2026

7:40
What do you do? What is your investigative pathway or approach? Great.
7:45
Yeah.
7:45
So I think it starts, I think the two main buckets are how sick is the patient and how severe is the eosinophilia and how persistent is it? Because you can get transient eosinophilia from a drug exposure like DRESS, or they call it DHI these days.
8:02
But if it's persistent and severe and the patient is sick, then of course that warrants a much more expedited course of investigation.
8:11
We get a lot of mild eosinophilia.
8:14
In Nova Scotia, when I moved here, I noticed that the reference range was less than 0.5 billion per liter.
8:20
Whereas when I was a resident in BC, the reference range was up to 1 billion per liter.

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23:22
know what? I don't mind if you're a little bit uncertain about

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