Löffler’s Endocarditis: First Report of Successful Mitral and Tricuspid Valve Replacements in a Patient with Long-Standing Hypereosinophilia
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Abstract
Löffler’s endocarditis is a condition that occurs in patients with hypereosinophilic syndrome (HES). First described in 1975, HES is a relatively new syndrome that is characterized by elevated eosinophils with end organ damage. Hypereosinophilia is defined as elevated eosinophils of 1.5 x 109/L for at least one month, or tissue involvement as evidenced by bone marrow section with 20% eosinophils, tissue infiltration, and/or deposition of eosinophil granule proteins in tissue. Prevalence of HES in the United States is estimated to be 0.36–6.3/ 100,000 people, of which Löffler’s endocarditis represents only a fraction of cases. We present a case where a patient presented with palpitations and shortness of breath, with a background of chronically elevated eosinophils. HES was previously diagnosed in this patient due to persistently elevated eosinophils with lung damage (Löffler’s syndrome). On biopsy, she was found to have endomyocardial fibrosis with a thickened endocardium secondary to eosinophils. Echocardiogram showed moderate to severe regurgitation in both mitral and tricuspid valves due to regurgitation secondary to fibrosis. She subsequently underwent a successful dual valve replacement. This is the first case, to our knowledge, where a dual valve replacement was performed successfully in a patient with Löffler’s endocarditis.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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