A case of hypereosinophilic syndrome presenting mid-ventricular obstruction

Heart Vessels. 2002 Mar;16(3):121-4. doi: 10.1007/s003800200007.

Abstract

A 59-year-old man with hypereosinophilic syndrome (HES) who had been maintained with low-dose prednisolone for 5 years developed the characteristic features of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. Left ventricular endomyocardial biopsy revealed no eosinophilic infiltration but extensive myocardial fibrosis. Cardiac involvement in HES presents as endocardial fibrosis, resulting in a clinical presentation of restrictive cardiomyopathy. HES heart disease can also present dilated cardiomyopathy, but myocardial hypertrophy has only rarely been noted in conjunction with HES. This report concerns a patient with HES who had clinical and hemodynamic evidence of asymmetric septal hypertrophy with mid-ventricular obstruction.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Cardiomyopathies / pathology*
  • Cardiomyopathy, Hypertrophic / diagnosis
  • Cardiomyopathy, Hypertrophic / etiology*
  • Cardiomyopathy, Hypertrophic / pathology
  • Fibrosis
  • Humans
  • Hypereosinophilic Syndrome / complications
  • Hypereosinophilic Syndrome / pathology*
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Myocardium / pathology