Loffler's endocarditis presenting in 2 children as fever with eosinophilia

Pediatrics

Volumn 110, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 1014-1018

  Horenstein, M Silvana ^a,b   Humes, Richard ^a,b   Epstein, Michael L ^a,b   Draper, David ^a,b  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Davies' endomyocardial fibrosis; Hypereosinophilic syndromes; Loffler's endocarditis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CELL INFILTRATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; COUGHING; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; ENDOCARDITIS; EOSINOPHILIA; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMAN; HYPEREOSINOPHILIC SYNDROME; LOEFFLER ENDOCARDITIS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RASH; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; EOSINOPHILIA; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMANS; HYPEREOSINOPHILIC SYNDROME;

EID: 0036843265     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.110.5.1014     Document Type: Article

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