ACUTE NECROTIZING EOSINOPHILIC MYOCARDITIS WITH GIANT-CELL INFILTRATION AFTER REMISSION OF IDIOPATHIC THROMBOCYTOPENIC PURPURA

Authors
HYOGO M KAMITANI T OGUNI A KAWASAKI S MIYANAGA H TAKAHASHI T KUNISHIGE H ANDACHI H
Citation
M. Hyogo et al., ACUTE NECROTIZING EOSINOPHILIC MYOCARDITIS WITH GIANT-CELL INFILTRATION AFTER REMISSION OF IDIOPATHIC THROMBOCYTOPENIC PURPURA, Internal medicine, 36(12), 1997, pp. 894-897
Citations number
9
Journal title
Internal medicine → ACNP
ISSN journal
09182918
Volume
36
Issue
12
Year of publication
1997
Pages
894 - 897
Database
ISI
SICI code
0918-2918(1997)36:12<894:ANEMWG>2.0.ZU;2-B
Abstract
Acute necrotizing eosinophilic myocarditis is characterized by acute o nset, fulminant congestive heart failure, and extensive necrosis of my ocytes with striking eosinophilic infiltration. However, multinucleate d giant cells sometimes appear in the fulminant phase of severe myocar ditis. This is the first case of a patient with a 1 year previous hist ory of idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura, who presented with acute n ecrotizing eosinophilic myocarditis with giant cell infiltration.