Beyond Peripheral Blood: Why Biopsy is the Gold Standard for Acute Eosinophilic Myocarditis

Highlights

1. Acute eosinophilic myocarditis (EM) carries a high risk of in-hospital and midterm mortality, with a death or heart transplantation rate of approximately 15% during hospitalization.

2. Peripheral eosinophilia is absent in more than 40% of histologically proven cases, making endomyocardial biopsy essential for diagnosis.

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