title: Congenital heart disease with hypereosinophilic syndrome.
abstract: The idiopathic hypereosinophilic syndrome, common in adults, is a leukoproliferative disorder marked by a predilection to damage specific organs. This report describes a unique case of an infant with tricuspid stenosis, a hypoplastic right ventricle, severe pulmonary stenosis, patent ductus arteriosus, and a patent foramen ovale associated with hypereosinophilic syndrome. Although treatment with high-dose oral steroids failed to decrease the leukocyte counts, a right classic Blalock-Taussig shunt through a right thoracotomy resolved her cyanosis.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery and Cardiology, Kobe Children's Hospital, Kobe, Hyogo, Japan.
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Ootaki
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Yamaguchi
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Yoshimura
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Tsukuda
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D006330:Heart Defects, Congenital / Q000150:complications* / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D017681:Hypereosinophilic Syndrome / Q000150:complications*; D007231:Infant, Newborn