Multiple brain infarctions and endomyocarditis in ANCA-negative eosinophilic granulomatosis with polyangiitis.

Eosinophilic granulomatosis with polyangiitis (EGPA) is a small vessel necrotizing vasculitis characterized by asthma and eosinophilia. Ischemic stroke is a rare complication of the disease. We herein report a case involving a 77-year-old woman with sinusitis who developed embolic stroke and splenic infarctions.

Fulminant myocarditis spreading from the right ventricle treated with extracorporeal membrane oxygenation and impella.

Although the pathogenesis of fulminant myocarditis varies, it is usually recognised by symptoms such as chest pain or syncope, echographic findings such as abnormal left ventricular (LV) wall motion, elevated cardiac enzymes and arrhythmias. We encountered a case of acute myocarditis with syncope, electrocardiographic changes suggestive of coronary artery disease in the inferior wall with abnormal wall motion in the right ventricle, which eventually developed into fulminant disease. Multidetector CT showed a contrast effect localised to the right ventricle in the late-contrast phase, suggesting a right ventricular myocardial injury.