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11 June 2021 ACUTE NECROTIZING AND EOSINOPHILIC MYOCARDITIS IN A CHIMPANZEE (PAN TROGLODYTES)
Ayisa Rodrigues de Oliveira, Daniel de Oliveira Santos, Nayara Ferreira de Paula, Jefferson Bruno Soares de Oliveira, Clarissa Helena Santana, Thaynara Parente de Carvalho, Larissa Giannini Alves Moreira, Herlandes Penha Tinoco, Maria Elvira Loyola Teixeira da Costa, Carlyle Mendes Coelho, Angela Tinoco Pessanha, Ronaldo Bragança Martins, Eurico Arruda, Carlos Augusto Gomes Leal, Marília Martins Melo, Rodrigo Otavio Silveira Silva, Carlos Chávez-Olórtegui, Tatiane Alves da Paixão, Renato Lima Santos
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Abstract

Cardiac disease is of importance in captive chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) health. Here we report an eosinophilic and necrotizing myocarditis in a 17-y-old chimpanzee with no previous history of cardiac disease that progressed to death within 48 h. Toxic and infectious causes were ruled out. The chimpanzee had eosinophilia at different occasions in previous years. The animal had a severe, diffuse, and acute monophasic necrotizing myocarditis, with a moderate lymphoplasmacytic infiltrate that was rich in eosinophils. Ante- and postmortem investigations are compatible with an unusual eosinophilic myocarditis with clinical evolution and morphology comparable with human eosinophilic myocarditis secondary to hypereosinophilic syndrome.

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Ayisa Rodrigues de Oliveira, Daniel de Oliveira Santos, Nayara Ferreira de Paula, Jefferson Bruno Soares de Oliveira, Clarissa Helena Santana, Thaynara Parente de Carvalho, Larissa Giannini Alves Moreira, Herlandes Penha Tinoco, Maria Elvira Loyola Teixeira da Costa, Carlyle Mendes Coelho, Angela Tinoco Pessanha, Ronaldo Bragança Martins, Eurico Arruda, Carlos Augusto Gomes Leal, Marília Martins Melo, Rodrigo Otavio Silveira Silva, Carlos Chávez-Olórtegui, Tatiane Alves da Paixão, and Renato Lima Santos "ACUTE NECROTIZING AND EOSINOPHILIC MYOCARDITIS IN A CHIMPANZEE (PAN TROGLODYTES)," Journal of Zoo and Wildlife Medicine 52(2), 853-857, (11 June 2021). https://doi.org/10.1638/2020-0040
Accepted: 7 December 2020; Published: 11 June 2021
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