Fulminant idiopathic hypereosinophilic syndrome presenting with cardiac, neurologic and haematologic involvement
Maintain suspicion for HES in unexplained eosinophilia with multi-organ dysfunction.Eosinophilic myocarditis may present with high troponin despite normal echocardiogram.Bilateral watershed infarcts reflect microvascular hypoperfusion due to eosinophilic endothelial injury.Thrombocytopenia often resolves rapidly with corticosteroids.Early immunosuppression prevents irreversible organ damage.
Authors
- Roberto Rivera (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2890-6966)
- Amer Zwein
- Nazaradden Ibrahim (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0000-7266-0364)
- Abboud Batri
Institutions
- University of Houston - Clear Lake (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- European Journal of Case Reports in Internal Medicine
- Published
- 2025-12-04
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.12890/2025_006010
- Primary Topic
- Eosinophilic Disorders and Syndromes
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00