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Orbital myositis and giant cell myocarditis
B R Klein1, T R Hedges, Y Dayal
1Department of Ophthalmology, Tufts University School of Medicine, New England Medical Center, Boston, MA.
Neurology
|July 1, 1989
Abstract:
A 65-year-old woman developed progressive, bilateral ophthalmoplegia, with thickened extraocular muscles on CT. One month later, a cardiac arrhythmia led to her death. Pathologically, the extraocular and skeletal muscles showed diffuse mononuclear cell inflammation, while the heart contained granulomatous myositis. This patient's syndrome of idiopathic, orbital myositis and giant cell myocarditis may be a distinct nosologic entity.