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Hypereosinophilic syndrome associated with obliterative left ventricular chamber and systemic obliterative
1First Department of Internal Medicine, Niigata University School of Medicine, Japan.
Japanese Heart Journal
|September 1, 1991
Abstract:
An extremely rare case of hypereosinophilic syndrome is reported. The patient had congestive heart failure due to left ventricular obliteration by a giant thrombus in the apex. Arteriosclerosis obliterans resulted in serious lower extremity gangrene. Combination therapy with a corticosteroid and hydroxyurea caused a marked reduction in eosinophil count, and heart failure recovered in stages. Although the patient was discharged, he returned to our hospital 3 months later with acute myeloblastic leukemia and subsequently died of respiratory failure with pneumonia.