Why the study?
Eosinophilic myocarditis is a cardiac manifestation of hypereosinophilic syndrome with high mortality that shares imaging features with other restrictive cardiopathies.
Population
A 70-year-old woman presenting with fever and chills
Design
Case report and brief review of the literature
Authors
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Documents typical CMR features of EM; leaves open whether imaging can supplant histopathology for diagnosis.
Non-invasive imaging with cardiac magnetic resonance is useful in narrowing the differential diagnosis to support the use of invasive endomyocardial biopsy for diagnosing eosinophilic myocarditis, even when absolute eosinophil counts are below the typical threshold.
Fakadej et al. (2022) studied this question.
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