BIVENTRICULAR LOEFFLER’S ENDOCARDITIS: A MANIFESTATION OF HYPEREOSINOPHILIC SYNDROME
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Unusual cardiac manifestation of hypereosinophilic syndrome.
Hypereosinophilic syndrome was diagnosed in a 14 year old girl who presented with recurrent syncope. An ambulatory electrocardiogram revealed intermittent type 2 second degree left atrioventricular (AV) block. Focal thinning of the interventricular septum was noted on echocardiography, contrary to the commoner finding of regional ventricular wall thickening among patients with hypereosinophilic...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of the American College of Cardiology
سال: 2021
ISSN: 0735-1097
DOI: 10.1016/s0735-1097(21)03278-2