Eosinophillic myocarditis and coronary arteritis in a fatal case of asthma.
Mortality is very unusual in the case of asthma. We recently came across a fatal case of asthma which showed a rare combination of unusual complications like eosinophilic myocarditis, coronary arteritis, biventricular cardiac hypertrophy, eosinophilic pneumonitis and pulmonary hypertension.
Department of Pathology, Topiwala National Medical College and B Y L Nair Charitable Hospital, Mumbai Central, Mumbai- 400 008, India.
Asha
A
Rupani
Gayathri
G
Amonkar
Jaya
J
Deshpande
D000328:Adult; D001167:Arteritis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology; D001249:Asthma / Q000150:complications*; D006332:Cardiomegaly / Q000473:pathology; D003331:Coronary Vessels / Q000473:pathology*; D004804:Eosinophils / Q000276:immunology*; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D006651:Histocytochemistry; D006801:Humans; D006976:Hypertension, Pulmonary / Q000473:pathology; D008297:Male; D008853:Microscopy; D009205:Myocarditis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology; D009206:Myocardium / Q000473:pathology*; D011657:Pulmonary Eosinophilia / Q000473:pathology