Hypereosinophiles Syndrom mit Endocarditis parietalis fibroplastica Löffler bei Lymphogranulom Hodgkin

Endocarditis parietalis eosinophilica -Are There Idiopathic Forms?

“…In the 45-year-old female patient of Löffler [10] with a 9-month observation, and in our own case with an 8-month observation, the eosinophil count was normal before death, which in these two cases was due to congestive heart failure. Quite another picture we can find in the fundamental observation of Reiser et al [9]: on one hand the duration of the illness with only 2 months is very short, on the other hand the number of eosinophils is extremely high until the end. Here the cause of death was also congestive heart failure.…”

“…Hematologic studies were equally typical of those usually associated with neutrophilic chronic granulocytic leukemia with a short Y chromosome, not being a Philadelphia chromosome. Just one year ago, K eiser et al [9] have shown that the eosinophilia is really very important for the genesis of endomyocardial lesions. In their 49-year-old patient, K eiser and R ü t t n e r could find a Hodgkin's disease as the cause of the hypereosinophilic syndrome.…”

“…Of interest is an analysis of the eosinophils in the peripheral blood of the cases of Löffler [10], Mumme [13], Keiser et al [9], and our own 71-year-old man (fig. 4).…”

“…Analysis of the eosinophil counts in the peripheral blood o f the cases o f Lofflf.r [10], M umme [13], Kkiser el at. [9] and our own 71 year-old male patient. We may conclude that this way of interpreting the findings is very useful in order to distinguish between symptomatic and idiopathic forms of endocarditis parietalis fibropiastica with eosinophilia of the blood.…”