AUTHOR=Mansueto Gelsomina , Capasso Emanuele , Buccelli Claudio , Niola Massimo 

TITLE=Pulmonary Eosinophilic Inflammatory Infiltration Post-Intensive Care in a Nearly Drowned Young Man with Papillary Fibroelastoma: A Rare Complication Discovered by Forensic Autopsy

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Medicine

VOLUME=Volume 4 - 2017

YEAR=2018

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/medicine/articles/10.3389/fmed.2017.00253

DOI=10.3389/fmed.2017.00253

ISSN=2296-858X

ABSTRACT=Abstract 
Papillary fibroelastoma is a rare benign lesion of heart (1). It is the second most common primary cardiac neoplasm, accounting for 4.4 % to 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.

Keywords: Papillary fibroelastoma, eosinophilic inflammatory infiltration, nearly-drowned, intensive care, syncope