Clinical, haemodynamic, and angiographic findings in Löffler's eosinophilic endocarditis.

Acute necrotising eosinophilic myocarditis.

Löffler's endocarditis is a recognised complication of diseases associated with eosinophilia. Eosinophilic heart disease is usually chronic, but there is a rare acute variety. Three patients with an unusual form of eosinophilic heart disease characterised by acute necrotising eosinophilic myocarditis after a possible initial viral infection and underlying allergic diathesis are reported. In con...

Surgical treatment of Löffler's eosinophilic endocarditis.

Endomyocardial firbrosis and Löffler's endocarditis parietalis fibroplastica.

The morphological features of endomyocardial fibrosis and Löffler's endocarditis are described. Sixteen cases of the chronic stage of Löffler's endocarditis were compared with pathological material of thirty-two patients with endomyocardial fibrosis. No morphological differences were noted. It is suggested that endomyocardial fibrosis and LOffler's endocarditis are part of the same disease spec...

Endomyocardial fibrosis and eosinophilia.

Absolute eosinophil counts were assessed in 15 African patients with proven endomyocardial fibrosis. Though the mean eosinophil count in patients with endomyocardial fibrosis was higher compared with the normals reported from Kampala (1-13 vs 0.72X10(9)/1), the absolute range was comparable. A high percentage of patients with endomyocardial fibrosis had malarial parasites, high malarial antibod...

Pathological aspects of endomyocardial fibrosis.

The studies leading up to the unitarian concept suggesting that endomyocardial fibrosis, described in the tropics, and Löffler's endocarditis parietalis fibroplastica (Löffler's endomyocardial disease), described in the temperate zone, belong to the same disease spectrum are detailed. Evidence that the eosinophil is involved in the pathogenesis of endomyocardial diseases, irrespective of the ge...