Summary of the updated international consensus diagnostic criteria for eosinophilic esophagitis: AGREE conference,

EoE is a global health condition that has steady increased over the last few decades and is now reported on all continents, with an estimated incidence of 4 per 100,000. Diagnostic Guidelines on eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE) were published in 2007 and updated in 2011.1,2 EoE is defined as a clinicopathological condition that is likely immune or antigen driven, and characterized clinically by symptoms of esophageal dysfunction and histologically by ≥15 eosinophils per high power field (eos/hpf).

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