EOSINOPHILIC LEUKEMIA
Authors: H P CHEN, H S SMITH
Journal: Annals of Internal Medicine (1960)

Case Reports1 June 1960EOSINOPHILIC LEUKEMIAHAMMOND P. CHEN, M.D., HARVEY S. SMITH, M.D.HAMMOND P. CHEN, M.D.Search for more papers by this author, HARVEY S. SMITH, M.D.Search for more papers by this authorAuthor, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-52-6-1343 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptEosinophilic leukemia is a rare disease. Less than 30 cases have been reported.1-7 The case to be presented is one of eosinophilic leukemia with extensive myo-endocardial fibrosis and cardiac mural thrombosis as one of its major features. It serves to emphasize that many patients with eosinophilic leukemia die as the result of cardiac disease apparently related directly to the leukemia. It also illustrates many other clinical and pathologic features currently considered to be characteristic of eosinophilic leukemia.CASE REPORTThe patient, a white male motel operator and truck driver, was 36 years of age at the time of death. He...Bibliography1. ThomsenPlum SP: Eosinophilic leukemia, Acta med. scandinav. 101: 116, 1939. CrossrefGoogle Scholar2. FriedmanWolmanTynes MIJHH: Eosinophilic leukemia: report of a case, Am. J. M. Sc. 208: 333, 1944. CrossrefGoogle Scholar3. GrayMcGillShaw JDMDS: Eosinophilic leukemia and familial eosinophilia; two illustrative cases, Lancet 2: 1131, 1949. CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar4. EvansNesbit TSRR: Eosinophilic leukemia: report of a case with autopsy confirmation; review of the literature, Blood 4: 603, 1949. CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar5. CarmelMinnoCook WJAMWL: Eosinophilic leukemia with report of a case, Arch. Int. Med. 87: 280, 1951. CrossrefGoogle Scholar6. HymanJarrold HLT: Eosinophilic leukemia: report of a case with autopsy, Ann. Int. Med. 36: 1541, 1952. LinkGoogle Scholar7. FadellCroneLeonardAltimirano EJRIMEMD: Eosinophilic leukemia, Arch. Int. Med. 99: 819-823, 1957. CrossrefGoogle Scholar8. Lennox B: Acute parietal endocarditis in a case of status asthmaticus: a possible early stage of Löffler's endocarditis parietalis fibroplastica with eosinophilia, J. Path. and Bact. 60: 621, 1948. CrossrefGoogle Scholar9. WienerKnights MJEM: Löffler's endocarditis parietalis fibroplastica with eosinophilia, Am. Heart J. 53: 157, 1957. CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar10. Custer RP: An atlas of the blood and bone marrow, 1949, W. B. Saunders Co., Philadelphia, p. 270. Google Scholar11. EngfeldtZetterström BR: Disseminated eosinophilic "collagen disease," Acta med. scandinav. 153: 337, 1955-1956. CrossrefGoogle Scholar This content is PDF only. To continue reading please click on the PDF icon. Author, Article, and Disclosure InformationAffiliations: *Received for publication November 26, 1958.From the Departments of Pathology, Veterans Administration Hospital, Iowa City, Iowa, and State University of Iowa College of Medicine.Requests for reprints should be addressed to Hammond P. Chen, M.D., Department of Pathology, Aultman Hospital, 625 Clarendon Avenue, Southwest, Canton 10, Ohio. PreviousarticleNextarticle Advertisement FiguresReferencesRelatedDetails Metrics Cited byTreatment of Hypereosinophilic Syndromes with Prednisone, Hydroxyurea, and InterferonEosinophilic constrictive pericarditisThe Hypereosinophilic Syndrome: Clinical Features, Laboratory Findings and TreatmentEosinophil, Eosinophilic and Eosinophilic DisordersArrhythmias in patients with hypereosinophilia: a comparison of patients with and without Löffler’s endomyocardial diseaseProliferative Disorders of the T-Cell SeriesCytochemical “normal” and “abnormal” eosinophils in acute leukemiasEosinophilic leukemiaZur Ultrastruktur und Cytochemie von eosinophil-myelomonocyt�ren Leuk�mienPseudoeosinophilia, eosinophilic endocarditis and eosinophilic leukemiaEosinophilic leukaemiaHypereosinophilic syndromeEXTREME PERSISTENT EOSINOPHILIA WITH HIGH SERUM B12 VALUESEosinophilie Leukemia Report of Five Cases and Review of LiteratureDAN S. BENVENISTI, M.D., F.A.C.P., JOHN E. ULTMANN, M.D., F.A.C.P.The Hypereosinophilic SyndromesWILLIAM R. HARDY, M.D., ROBERT E. ANDERSON, M.D.EOSINOPHILIC LEUKEMIA - AN IMMUNOPATHOLOGICAL REACTION? 1 June 1960Volume 52, Issue 6Page: 1343-1352KeywordsAnemiaEosinophiliaFibrosisHeart diseasesHospital medicineThrombosis ePublished: 1 December 2008 Issue Published: 1 June 1960 PDF downloadLoading ...