title: Total artificial heart implantation for biventricular failure due to eosinophilic myocarditis.
abstract: Idiopathic hypereosinophilic syndrome is a condition of unknown etiology characterized by proliferation of eosinophils and their infiltration into tissues. Although cardiac involvement is rare, eosinophilic myocarditis can lead to life-threating fulminant congestive heart failure. Treatment of patients with eosinophilic myocarditis is challenging as heart failure can be caused by biventricular dysfunction. To our knowledge, this is the first case reported in the literature describing a patient with acute severe biventricular heart failure caused by eosinophilic myocarditis with mural left ventricular apical thrombus who was successfully treated with implantation of a total artificial heart as a bridge to heart transplant.
authors.affiliation: Division of Cardiothoracic Transplantation and Circulatory Support, Texas Heart Institute, Baylor College of Medicine, Cooley 355N, 6770 Bertner Avenue, Houston, TX, 77030, USA. kawabori.masashi@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Masashi
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kawabori
authors.affiliation: Division of Cardiothoracic Transplantation and Circulatory Support, Texas Heart Institute, Baylor College of Medicine, Cooley 355N, 6770 Bertner Avenue, Houston, TX, 77030, USA.|Tokyo Metropolitan Geriatric Hospital and Institute of Gerontology, Tokyo, Japan.
authors.forename: Chitaru
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Kurihara
authors.affiliation: Division of Cardiothoracic Transplantation and Circulatory Support, Texas Heart Institute, Baylor College of Medicine, Cooley 355N, 6770 Bertner Avenue, Houston, TX, 77030, USA.
authors.forename: Yair
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Miller
authors.affiliation: Division of Cardiothoracic Transplantation and Circulatory Support, Texas Heart Institute, Baylor College of Medicine, Cooley 355N, 6770 Bertner Avenue, Houston, TX, 77030, USA.
authors.forename: Kent A
authors.initials: KA
authors.lastname: Heck
authors.affiliation: Division of Cardiothoracic Transplantation and Circulatory Support, Texas Heart Institute, Baylor College of Medicine, Cooley 355N, 6770 Bertner Avenue, Houston, TX, 77030, USA.
authors.forename: Roberta C
authors.initials: RC
authors.lastname: Bogaev
authors.affiliation: Division of Cardiothoracic Transplantation and Circulatory Support, Texas Heart Institute, Baylor College of Medicine, Cooley 355N, 6770 Bertner Avenue, Houston, TX, 77030, USA.
authors.forename: Andrew B
authors.initials: AB
authors.lastname: Civitello
authors.affiliation: Division of Cardiothoracic Transplantation and Circulatory Support, Texas Heart Institute, Baylor College of Medicine, Cooley 355N, 6770 Bertner Avenue, Houston, TX, 77030, USA.
authors.forename: William E
authors.initials: WE
authors.lastname: Cohn
authors.affiliation: Division of Cardiothoracic Transplantation and Circulatory Support, Texas Heart Institute, Baylor College of Medicine, Cooley 355N, 6770 Bertner Avenue, Houston, TX, 77030, USA.
authors.forename: O H
authors.initials: OH
authors.lastname: Frazier
authors.affiliation: Division of Cardiothoracic Transplantation and Circulatory Support, Texas Heart Institute, Baylor College of Medicine, Cooley 355N, 6770 Bertner Avenue, Houston, TX, 77030, USA. jeffrey.morgan@bcm.edu.
authors.forename: Jeffrey A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Morgan
mesh_terms: D001706:Biopsy; D004452:Echocardiography; D004802:Eosinophilia / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis; D006333:Heart Failure / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery*; D006352:Heart Ventricles / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000503:physiopathology* / Q000601:surgery; D006354:Heart, Artificial; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009205:Myocarditis / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis; D009206:Myocardium / Q000473:pathology; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: Artificial organs; Cardiomyopathy; Circulatory support device; Heart failure