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De Novo Eosinophilic Myocarditis after Heart Transplantation

Mahmoud H Abdou, M. Azam Hadi, Angela Brittsan and Marco A Caccamo

Eosinophilic myocarditis (EM) is a rare cause of cardiac arrest and cardiogenic shock. However, in the cardiac transplant population on immunosuppressive therapy this phenomenon has never been described. We report a case of a patient 3 years after heart transplantation who suffered a cardiac arrest and had allograft biventricular failure with histological evidence suggestive of EM.