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A case of peripartum eosinophilic myocarditis
C B Pearce1, J D McMeekin, T N Moyana
1Royal University Hospital, Saskatoon, Canada.
Abstract:
A 19-year-old postpartum patient with a previous history of asthma and eosinophilic myocarditis is described. Eosinophilic myocarditis is thought to be caused by exacerbation of the idiopathic hypereosinophilic syndrome by pregnancy. The diagnosis was made by a right ventricular endomyocardial biopsy, which showed an eosinophilic infiltrate with a few scattered foci of myonecrosis, but no fibrosis, vasculitis or granulomas. The patient's myocardial function continued to decline over a two-year follow-up period, despite normal levels of eosinophils. She developed echocardiographic evidence of diastolic and systolic dysfunction.
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