Open AccessEosinophillic myocarditis and coronary arteritis in a fatal case of asthma
Author(s) -
Asha Rupani,
Gayathri Amonkar,
Jaya Deshpande
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
indian journal of pathology and microbiology/indian journal of pathology and microbiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 0974-5130
pISSN - 0377-4929
DOI - 10.4103/0377-4929.72093
Subject(s) - medicine , myocarditis , asthma , arteritis , pneumonitis , cardiology , eosinophilic , pericarditis , dermatology , pathology , lung
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.