Magnetic resonance imaging of a hypereosinophilic endocarditis with apical thrombotic obliteration in Churg-Strauss syndrome complicated with acute abdominal aortic embolic occlusion.

Authors :: Esposito A
De Cobelli F
Belloni E
Ravelli S
Scotti R
Sabbadini MG
Del Maschio A
Source :: International journal of cardiology [Int J Cardiol] 2010 Sep 03; Vol. 143 (3), pp. e48-50. Date of Electronic Publication: 2009 Jan 22.
Publication Year :: 2010
Abstract: Churg-Strauss syndrome can be associated with Loeffler-like eosinophilic endocarditis. We report a case of a young woman in which the diagnosis of Churg-Strauss syndrome was made subsequently to the magnetic resonance demonstration of eosinophilic endocarditis associated to left ventricle apical thrombosis. In our report, this rare condition evolved in an unusual complication: the embolic migration of the left ventricle apical thrombus in the abdominal aorta as showed by multi-detector-computed-tomography angiography.<br /> (Copyright © 2008 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.)

Subjects :: Acute Disease
Adult
Aorta, Abdominal
Cardiac Imaging Techniques
Churg-Strauss Syndrome complications
Embolism complications
Endocarditis complications
Female
Humans
Hypereosinophilic Syndrome complications
Thrombosis complications
Churg-Strauss Syndrome pathology
Embolism pathology
Endocarditis pathology
Hypereosinophilic Syndrome pathology
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Thrombosis pathology

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