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CardioNerds (Daniel Ambinder) joins Dr. Priyanka Ghosh and Dr. Ahmad Lone from the Guthrie Robert Packer Hospital for a day in the Finger Lakes region of New York. They discuss the following case. A 35-year-old man with nonspecific symptoms of headache, fatigue, and chest wall pain was found to have elevated troponin levels, elevated inflammatory markers, EKG with inferior and anterolateral ST depressions, and no obstructive coronary artery disease on cardiac catheterization. His peripheral eosinophilia, cardiac MRI results, and bone marrow biopsy revealed eosinophilic myocarditis from acute leukemia with eosinophilia. This episode discusses this rare type of myocardial inflammation, its potential causes, and the diagnostic workup with the mention of how this patient was ultimately treated for his acute leukemia and myocarditis. Expert commentary is provided by Dr. Saurabh Sharma. Audio editing by CardioNerds academy intern, student doctor Pace Wetstein.

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