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Case Reports
. 1984 Sep;52(3):343-8.
doi: 10.1136/hrt.52.3.343.

Acute necrotising eosinophilic myocarditis

C A Herzog, D C Snover, N A Staley
Case Reports

Acute necrotising eosinophilic myocarditis

C A Herzog et al. Br Heart J. 1984 Sep.

Abstract

Löffler's endocarditis is a recognised complication of diseases associated with eosinophilia. Eosinophilic heart disease is usually chronic, but there is a rare acute variety. Three patients with an unusual form of eosinophilic heart disease characterised by acute necrotising eosinophilic myocarditis after a possible initial viral infection and underlying allergic diathesis are reported. In contrast to previously reported cases of acute Löffler's endocarditis there was no notable extracardiac pathology.

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