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European Journal of Echocardiography Advance Access published online on April 5, 2007
European Journal of Echocardiography, doi:10.1016/j.euje.2007.02.008
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Published on behalf of the European Society of Cardiology. All rights reserved. © The Author 2008. For permissions please email: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

Löffler's endocarditis: the hypereosinophic syndrome

Mohamad Ali Ostovan and Amir Aslani*

Cardiology Department, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Namazee Hospital, P.O. Box 71935-1334, Shiraz, Iran

Received 10 December 2006; accepted after revision 14 February 2007.

* Corresponding author. Tel: + 98 917 3156216; fax: + 98 711 6279733. E-mail address: draslani{at}yahoo.com


  Abstract

In the present study we describe two similar severe cases of Löffler's endocarditis in which eosinophilic infiltrations obliterated the entire right ventricular cavity and caused severe right ventricular dysfunction.

Keywords: Hypereosinophic; Syndrome; Löffler's endocarditis


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