Eosinophillic myocarditis and coronary arteritis in a fatal case of asthma

Abstract

Mortality is very unusual in the case of asthma. We recently came across a fatal case of asthma which showed a rare combination of unusual complications like eosinophilic myocarditis, coronary arteritis, biventricular cardiac hypertrophy, eosinophilic pneumonitis and pulmonary hypertension.

Keywords

• Asthma
• biventricular hypertrophy
• coronary arteritis
• eosinophilic pneumonitis
• eosinophilic myocarditis
• pulmonary hypertension