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Margaret Locke1, Rachel M Suen2, Alex K Williamson3
1Internal Medicine, Zucker School of Medicine, Hempstead, USA.
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A 45-year-old man from El Salvador with no past medical history presented with cough and chest pain. Investigations revealed 60% peripheral eosinophilia (absolute count 12.3 K/uL). Cardiac imaging was consistent with myocarditis with intracardiac thrombus formation. Endomyocardial biopsy confirmed eosinophilic infiltration of the myocardium, and bone marrow biopsy showed hypercellular marrow with 28% eosinophils. Cytogenetics/fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) confirmed positive FIP1L1-PDGFRA rearrangement. The patient was treated for FIP1L1-PDGFRA clonal hypereosinophilic syndrome with associated eosinophilic myocarditis and intracardiac thrombus. The treatment regimen consisted of a steroid taper, imatinib, and anticoagulation. Treatment was followed by normalization of the eosinophil count. At two-year follow-up, the patient was without recurrence of eosinophilia on maintenance imatinib and indefinite anticoagulation with warfarin.
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