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CMAJ • January 21, 2003; 168 (2)
© 2003 Canadian Medical Association or its licensors

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Hypereosinophilic syndrome with pulmonary and cardiac involvement in a patient with asthma

Demet Karnak, Oya Kayacan, Sumru Beder and Mustafa Delibalta

The authors are with the Department of Chest Diseases and Tuberculosis, Ankara University Medical Faculty, Ankara, Turkey.

Correspondence to: Dr. Demet Karnak, Department of Chest Diseases and Tuberculosis, Ankara University Medical Faculty, Cebeci 06100, Ankara, Turkey; karnak{at}medicine.ankara.edu.tr

Idiopathic hypereosinophilic syndrome is characterized by prolonged eosinophilia without an identifiable underlying cause and multiple-organ dysfunction, most frequently involving the heart, the central or peripheral nervous system and the lungs. We describe a case in which a patient with asthma who had idiopathic hypereosinophilic syndrome with pulmonary involvement presented with symptoms of pulmonary embolism and left ventricular thrombus.




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