Key result
Fatal asthma case reveals lethal overlap of eosinophilic myocarditis, coronary arteritis, and pulmonary hypertension.
Why the study?
Mortality in asthma is very unusual and the study reports a rare combination of fatal complications including eosinophilic myocarditis and coronary arteritis.
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Population
A fatal case of asthma
Design
Case report
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Rare eosinophilic multiorgan involvement in fatal asthma warrants clinical vigilance; leaves open prevalence and intervention studies.
Amonkar et al. (2010) studied this question. A fatal case of asthma presented with a rare combination of eosinophilic myocarditis, coronary arteritis, biventricular cardiac hypertrophy, eosinophilic pneumonitis and pulmonary hypertension.
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