title: Eosinophilia: Rare cause of arterial thrombosis and cardioembolic stroke in childhood.
abstract: Eosinophilia has been reported as a very rare cause of stroke in children. The thrombotic event may be either due to cardiac damage induced by eosinophils and their granular protein, that is, the major basic protein, or the systemic hypercoagulable state induced by eosinophilia. We report here a case of eosinophilia whose initial presentation was recurrent strokes and cardiac and arterial thrombosis.
authors.affiliation: Sanjeev Kumar Sharma, Suman Kumar, Tulika Seth, Pravas Mishra, Manoranjan Mahapatra, Department of Hematology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi 110029, India.
authors.forename: Sanjeev Kumar
authors.initials: SK
authors.lastname: Sharma
authors.forename: Suman
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kumar
authors.forename: Tulika
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Seth
authors.forename: Pravas
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Mishra
authors.forename: Manoranjan
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Mahapatra