Löffler's Endocarditis

Overview

Journal Br Heart J

Specialty Cardiology & Vascular Diseases

Date 1975 May 1

PMID 1137663

Citations 5

Authors

M E Scott

J H BRUCE

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Abstract

The clinical, laboratory, and necropsy findings in a patient with massive eosinophilia and fatal cardiac failure are reported. Necropsy revealed partial obliteration of the lumen of the left ventricle with dense white thrombus, and fibrous infiltration of the myocardium. An additional finding, not hitherto described in Löffler's endocarditis, was massive enlargement of the mesenteric lymph nodes.

Citing Articles

Right ventricular thrombus: clinical and diagnostic features.

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Arrhythmias in patients with hypereosinophilia: a comparison of patients with and without Löffler's endomyocardial disease.

Cohen J, Davies J, Goodwin J, Spry C Postgrad Med J. 1980; 56(662):828-32.

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Surgical treatment of Löffler's eosinophilic endocarditis.

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Endomyocardial firbrosis and Löffler's endocarditis parietalis fibroplastica.

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