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=4

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=<p>Papillary fibroelastoma is a rare benign lesion of heart (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B1">1</xref>). It is the second most common primary cardiac neoplasm, accounting for 4.4–8% of all tumors of the heart (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B2">2</xref>). 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.</p>