Pulmonary Eosinophilic Inflammatory Infiltration Post-Intensive Care in a Nearly Drowned Young Man with Papillary Fibroelastoma: A Rare Complication Discovered by Forensic Autopsy
- Resource Type
- article
- Authors
- Gelsomina Mansueto; Emanuele Capasso; Claudio Buccelli; Massimo Niola
- Source
- Frontiers in Medicine, Vol 4 (2018)
- Subject
- papillary fibroelastoma
eosinophilic inflammatory infiltration
nearly drowned
intensive care
syncope
Medicine (General)
R5-920
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 2296-858X
Papillary fibroelastoma is a rare benign lesion of heart (1). It is the second most common primary cardiac neoplasm, accounting for 4.4–8% of all tumors of the heart (2). We described a forensic autopsy of a nearly drowned young man with cardiac papillary fibroelastoma who died because of a pulmonary inflammatory infiltration rich in granulocytes after intensive care. This occurrence is rare but possible and should be kept in mind because a lung inflammatory infiltrate rich in eosinophilic granulocytes can be present in different pathological conditions and differential diagnoses are often difficult to do.