TY - JOUR T1 - Isolated eosinophilic coronary arteritis JF - Journal of Clinical Pathology JO - J Clin Pathol SP - 469 LP - 471 DO - 10.1136/jcp.2009.074450 VL - 63 IS - 5 AU - Vincenzo Arena AU - Luca Valerio AU - Elisa Arena AU - Fabio De-Giorgio AU - Egidio Stigliano AU - Giovanni Monego AU - Arnaldo Capelli Y1 - 2010/05/01 UR - http://jcp.bmj.com/content/63/5/469.2.abstract N2 - Coronary periarteritis with eosinophilic infiltrate is rare: it has been observed in hypereosinophilic syndromes or systemic vasculitis such as Churg–Strauss syndrome and Wegener's granulomatosis and in a limited form of Churg–Strauss syndrome (table 1), but a cryptogenic form of isolated eosinophilic coronary periarteritis has also been described,1–3 which is the most likely diagnosis in the case we report here.A patient in his early 70s was taken to the emergency department of our university, but he was dead on arrival. He had no risk factors for cardiovascular disease, nor history of atopy, but had been recently diagnosed with unstable angina.At autopsy, … ER -