Case report: fulminant myocarditis with biopsy-proven eosinophilic infiltration and burned-out myocardial pathology at autopsy
Rui Katano, Atsushi Tada, Hirokazu Sugino, Toshiyuki Nagai, Toshihisa Anzai, Doralisa Morrone, Jabir Abdullakutty, Deepti Ranganathan · 2026
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Rui Katano and co-authors told the case in 2026 of a 54-year-old woman whose heart muscle flared in a sudden, lethal form marked by a flood of allergy-linked white cells. She reached a local clinic with days of fever and short breath, in shock, with heart enzyme levels far above normal. Early tests mimicked a heart attack, yet artery scans showed no real block.
After her heart stopped, machines took over blood flow while a tissue snip from the heart showed dead muscle packed with the allergy-linked cells. Strong immune-calming drugs followed, with two more added as she failed to rally. Her heart fell silent in full and she died. The post-mortem found near-total loss of living heart cells with scar tissue in their place. The authors stress fast risk sorting for such cases.
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| CREATOR | Rui Katano, Atsushi Tada, Hirokazu Sugino, Toshiyuki Nagai, Toshihisa Anzai, Doralisa Morrone, Jabir Abdullakutty, Deepti Ranganathan |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 16897 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |