Since the first case of endocardial resection I have performed in 1971, many similar cases have been operated on in the world, principally in Equatorian areas such as Africa, Northeastern Brazil and Southern India. In caucasian race, cases are less frequent but are similar to the other ones: in fact, endomyocardial fibrosis which was described by ...
M, Lazos-Ochoa +2 more
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Neglected cardiomyopathies in Africa
Cardiomyopathies are forms of disease in which the heart muscle is structurally and functionally abnormal in the absence of coronary artery disease, hypertension, valve disease and congenital heart disease sufficient to explain the observed myocardial ...
Ana Olga H. Mocumbi
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Microvascular study of hearts with endomyocardial fibrosis. [PDF]
G Farrer-Brown +3 more
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Clinical Meaning of Ascites in Patients with Endomyocardial Fibrosis
OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the clinical meaning of ascites and the main features of patients with ascites and endomyocardial fibrosis. METHODS: We studied 166 patients with endomyocardial fibrosis (mean age 37 years, 114 women) treated over the last 20 years.
Barretto Antonio Carlos Pereira +5 more
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Lymph Vessel Proliferation on Cardiac Biopsy May Help in the Diagnosis of Cardiac Sarcoidosis
Background The diagnosis of cardiac sarcoidosis (CS) is challenging because endomyocardial biopsy has only a 20% to 30% sensitivity rate for diagnosis and it presents with similar clinical features of idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM).
Yukiko Oe +8 more
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Left ventricular systolic series elastic properties in aortic stenosis before and after valve replacement [PDF]
In seven patients with aortic valve disease the time course of an auxotonic beat was compared with that of an isovolumetric beat produced by aortic cross clamping during open heart surgery.
EGLOFF, LOUIS +7 more
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Pre- and postoperative findings in patients with endomyocardial fibrosis. [PDF]
Hess Om +5 more
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Endomyocardial fibrosis secondary to eosinophilia due to parasitism [PDF]
J Alberto Sánchez-Toscano +4 more
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Endomyocardial fibrosis: a tragic conundrum or a mere negligence? [PDF]
Shah BS, Lanjewar C.
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Adult heart transplantation under tacrolimus (FK506) immunosuppression: Histopathologic observations and comparison to a cyclosporine-based regimen with lympholytic (ATG) induction [PDF]
Background: Tacrolimus (FK506) is an effective immunosuppressant for human heart transplantation, but information about its effects on cardiac allograft and nonallograft kidney and liver histopathologic study is limited.
Demetris, AJ +11 more
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