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A Rare Presentation of Hypereosinophilic Syndrome With Loffler’s Endomyocarditis, Encephalopathy, and Multiple Thromboembolic Strokes

Idiopathic hypereosinophilic syndrome is a disorder with a high eosinophilic count for which no identifiable cause is evident. Herein we report a case of a 47-year-old male with a background history of hypereosinophilia, who presented with sudden onset altered level of consciousness and drowsiness f...

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Autores principales: Hussain, Hassan, Janaka, KVC, Amarasena, Naomali, Senanayake, Sudeshan, Sudam, Dhanuka
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10604507/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37900362
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.46050
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author Hussain, Hassan
Janaka, KVC
Amarasena, Naomali
Senanayake, Sudeshan
Sudam, Dhanuka
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Janaka, KVC
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Sudam, Dhanuka
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description Idiopathic hypereosinophilic syndrome is a disorder with a high eosinophilic count for which no identifiable cause is evident. Herein we report a case of a 47-year-old male with a background history of hypereosinophilia, who presented with sudden onset altered level of consciousness and drowsiness for 1-day duration associated with a gradual onset progressive memory loss for 1-month duration. Based on clinical, biochemical, and imaging studies, a diagnosis of Loffler’s endomyocarditis was made for which he was treated with albendazole with diethylcarbamazine along with high-dose steroids. He made a successful recovery after 2 months of treatment.
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spelling pubmed-106045072023-10-28 A Rare Presentation of Hypereosinophilic Syndrome With Loffler’s Endomyocarditis, Encephalopathy, and Multiple Thromboembolic Strokes Hussain, Hassan Janaka, KVC Amarasena, Naomali Senanayake, Sudeshan Sudam, Dhanuka Cureus Internal Medicine Idiopathic hypereosinophilic syndrome is a disorder with a high eosinophilic count for which no identifiable cause is evident. Herein we report a case of a 47-year-old male with a background history of hypereosinophilia, who presented with sudden onset altered level of consciousness and drowsiness for 1-day duration associated with a gradual onset progressive memory loss for 1-month duration. Based on clinical, biochemical, and imaging studies, a diagnosis of Loffler’s endomyocarditis was made for which he was treated with albendazole with diethylcarbamazine along with high-dose steroids. He made a successful recovery after 2 months of treatment. Cureus 2023-09-27 /pmc/articles/PMC10604507/ /pubmed/37900362 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.46050 Text en Copyright © 2023, Hussain et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
spellingShingle Internal Medicine
Hussain, Hassan
Janaka, KVC
Amarasena, Naomali
Senanayake, Sudeshan
Sudam, Dhanuka
A Rare Presentation of Hypereosinophilic Syndrome With Loffler’s Endomyocarditis, Encephalopathy, and Multiple Thromboembolic Strokes
title A Rare Presentation of Hypereosinophilic Syndrome With Loffler’s Endomyocarditis, Encephalopathy, and Multiple Thromboembolic Strokes
title_full A Rare Presentation of Hypereosinophilic Syndrome With Loffler’s Endomyocarditis, Encephalopathy, and Multiple Thromboembolic Strokes
title_fullStr A Rare Presentation of Hypereosinophilic Syndrome With Loffler’s Endomyocarditis, Encephalopathy, and Multiple Thromboembolic Strokes
title_full_unstemmed A Rare Presentation of Hypereosinophilic Syndrome With Loffler’s Endomyocarditis, Encephalopathy, and Multiple Thromboembolic Strokes
title_short A Rare Presentation of Hypereosinophilic Syndrome With Loffler’s Endomyocarditis, Encephalopathy, and Multiple Thromboembolic Strokes
title_sort rare presentation of hypereosinophilic syndrome with loffler’s endomyocarditis, encephalopathy, and multiple thromboembolic strokes
topic Internal Medicine
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10604507/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37900362
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.46050
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