Pulmonary Haemosiderosis (apparently Idiopathic) Associated with Myocarditis, with Bilateral Penetrating Corneal Ulceration, and with Diabetes Mellitus.

The literature of pulmonary haemosiderosis includes an account by Campbell and Macafee (1959) of idiopathic pulmonary haemosiderosis associated with myocarditis. Their patient first had symptoms of shortness of breath at the age of 7; he was found to have the radiological changes of pulmonary haemosiderosis at the age of 12, and he died when 14 years old. Death was due to cardiac failure, and at necropsy the heart showed a marked degree of fibrosis and there was infiltration by polymorphs, mononuclears, and lymphocytes. The following case is reported because of the appearance of pulmonary haemosiderosis and the subsequent development of cardiac manifestations plus a number of other features.