Images in Clinical Medicine

Kim Eagle, M.D., Editor

Loffler's Endocarditis

Tsutomu Imaizumi, M.D., and Keiji Aibara, M.D.

N Engl J Med 1994; 331:24July 7, 1994

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Figure 1 Loffler's Endocarditis.

A transverse slice of the heart from a 65-year-old man with Loffler's endocarditis shows large mural thrombi (T) surrounding the thickened endocardium in both ventricles. Loffler's endocarditis is characterized by hypereosinophilia and endocardial thickening, which typically causes restrictive cardiomyopathy.

Kim Eagle, M.D.

Tsutomu Imaizumi, M.D.
Keiji Aibara, M.D.
Kyushu University School of Medicine, Higashi-Ku, Fukuoka, Japan 812