eosinophilic endomyocarditis

Synopsis

Etiology

 drug toxicity
 parasitic infections

• Trichina
• Toxocara canis

 Loffler endocarditis
 hypereosinophilic diseases

 eosinophilic leukemia

• acute eosinophilic leukemia
• chronic eosinophilic leukemia

 Balint syndrome (optic ataxia and paralysis of visual fixation)
 idiopathic hypereosinophilic syndrome
 Churg-Strauss syndrome
 post-irradiated thyroid carcinoma
 Hodgkin disease
 viral infections
 eosinophilic leukemoid reaction

• metastazing melanoma with thrombotic eosinophilic parietal endocarditis

 idiopathic eosinophilic endomyocarditis (IEEM)

Associations

 sudden death (16211450)

• neonatal sudden death (16211450)

Types

 neonatal eosinophilic endomyocarditis
 idiopathic eosinophilic endomyocarditis

References

 Krous HF, Haas E, Chadwick AE, Wagner GN. Sudden death in a neonate with idiopathic eosinophilic endomyocarditis. Pediatr Dev Pathol. 2005 Sep-Oct;8(5):587-92. PMID: 16211450

 Smith JW. Hypoplastic right ventricle with eosinophilic endomyocarditis and patent foramen ovale. West J Med. 1978 Jul;129(1):64-7. PMID: 685268