Hyper-Eosinophilic Syndrome Masquerading as Myocardial Infarction, Stroke and Cancer

Hyper-eosinophilic syndrome (HES) can be fatal if left untreated; and it is difficult to make a diagnosis early on due to the symptoms overlapping with many other conditions. For patients presenting with eosinophilia and end-organ damage, clinicians should have a high degree of suspicion for HES. Tr...

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Autores principales: Minupuri, Arun, Ramireddy, Karthik, Patel, Roshni, Hossain, Samia, Salas Noain, Jesus
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2020
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Internal Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7478923/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32923231
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.9630
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author Minupuri, Arun
Ramireddy, Karthik
Patel, Roshni
Hossain, Samia
Salas Noain, Jesus
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description Hyper-eosinophilic syndrome (HES) can be fatal if left untreated; and it is difficult to make a diagnosis early on due to the symptoms overlapping with many other conditions. For patients presenting with eosinophilia and end-organ damage, clinicians should have a high degree of suspicion for HES. Treatment with steroids can prevent further progression or can lead to complete resolution of the symptoms.
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spelling pubmed-74789232020-09-11 Hyper-Eosinophilic Syndrome Masquerading as Myocardial Infarction, Stroke and Cancer Minupuri, Arun Ramireddy, Karthik Patel, Roshni Hossain, Samia Salas Noain, Jesus Cureus Internal Medicine Hyper-eosinophilic syndrome (HES) can be fatal if left untreated; and it is difficult to make a diagnosis early on due to the symptoms overlapping with many other conditions. For patients presenting with eosinophilia and end-organ damage, clinicians should have a high degree of suspicion for HES. Treatment with steroids can prevent further progression or can lead to complete resolution of the symptoms. Cureus 2020-08-09 /pmc/articles/PMC7478923/ /pubmed/32923231 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.9630 Text en Copyright © 2020, Minupuri et al. http://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.
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title Hyper-Eosinophilic Syndrome Masquerading as Myocardial Infarction, Stroke and Cancer
title_full Hyper-Eosinophilic Syndrome Masquerading as Myocardial Infarction, Stroke and Cancer
title_fullStr Hyper-Eosinophilic Syndrome Masquerading as Myocardial Infarction, Stroke and Cancer
title_full_unstemmed Hyper-Eosinophilic Syndrome Masquerading as Myocardial Infarction, Stroke and Cancer
title_short Hyper-Eosinophilic Syndrome Masquerading as Myocardial Infarction, Stroke and Cancer
title_sort hyper-eosinophilic syndrome masquerading as myocardial infarction, stroke and cancer
topic Internal Medicine
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7478923/
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