Heart Views (Oct 2024)

A Case of Eosinophilic Infiltration of the Right Heart: Diagnostic and Management Considerations

  • Jeorghino Lodge,
  • Adrian Brodison,
  • Galal Abushahba

DOI
https://doi.org/10.4103/heartviews.heartviews_96_23
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 25, no. 2
pp. 98 – 102

Abstract

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Loeffler first described “fibroplastic parietal endocarditis with blood eosinophilia” in 1936. This we now know refers to the most common cardiac manifestation of an uncommon condition, the so-called hypereosinophilic syndromes. This condition typically results in a restrictive cardiomyopathy affecting the left heart, but here, we present an unusual case of a 65-year-old woman with chronic hypereosinophilia of at least 2 years, who presented with right heart failure as a result of eosinophilic endomyocardial infiltration of her right ventricle. We explore the diagnostic pathway and look at the literature on management.

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