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Endomyocardial fibrosis in infancy [PDF]
Arquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologia, 2003 The patient was a 4-month-old infant, who underwent persistent ductus arteriosus interruption with titanium clips at the age of 13 days and, since the age of 2 months, had crises of hypoxia and hypertonicity. After clinical investigation, the presence of
Jatene Marcelo Biscegli +9 more
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Endomyocardial fibrosis: still a mystery after 60 years.
PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2008 The pathologist Jack N. P. Davies identified endomyocardial fibrosis in Uganda in 1947. Since that time, reports of this restrictive cardiomyopathy have come from other parts of tropical Africa, South Asia, and South America.
Gene Bukhman, John Ziegler, Eldryd Parry
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Endomyocardial fibrosis with right ventricular aneurysm mimicking ARVC – A case report from India
Indian Heart Journal, 2016 A 48-year-old man presented with chronic right sided heart failure. 2D echocardiography revealed the classical features of left ventricular endomyocardial fibrosis with a prominent right ventricular apical aneurysm. Right ventriculography further defined
Suneesh Kalliath +2 more
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Acta Cardiologica, 2011 : We report the case of a 51-year-old man of central African origin. Medical evaluation revealed severe heart failure. Echocardiography disclosed poor left ventricular function.
Vrints, Christiaan +3 more
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Eosinophilia to endomyocardial fibrosis: Documentation of a case
Annals of Pediatric Cardiology, 2018 Endomyocardial fibrosis (EMF) is an important cause of restrictive cardiomyopathy in tropical countries. The etiopathogenesis of EMF remains obscure.
Dinkar Bhasin +3 more
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Endomyocardial fibrosis: A form of endemic restrictive cardiomyopathy [PDF]
Global Cardiology Science & Practice, 2012 Endomyocardial fibrosis is a form of endemic restrictive cardiomyopathy that affects mainly children and adolescents, and is geographically restricted to some poor areas of Africa, Latin America and Asia.
Ana Olga Mocumbi
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Endomyocardial fibrosis: is it a systemic disease?
South Sudan Medical Journal, 2016 Background: Patients with endomyocardial fibrosis (EMF) characteristically present with gross ascites and absent or minimal pedal oedema. This has long puzzled clinicians, especially since this clinical picture remains the same regardless of whether ...
Juergen Freers +4 more
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Indian Pacing and Electrophysiology Journal, 2009 Endomyocardial fibrosis is a progressive disease of unknown origin affecting children and young adults. It involves inflow portion of right and/or left ventricle and apex. It may be associated with thrombus.
Amitesh Aggarwal +4 more
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Echocardiographic findings in endomyocardial fibrosis
The Turkish Journal of Pediatrics, 1992 An 18-month-old infant diagnosed as having endomyocardial fibrosis by echocardiography is presented. Most patients with endomyocardial fibrosis reported in the literature are either older children or adults.
M Saraçlar +3 more
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Endomyocardial fibrosis. [PDF]
Cardiovasc Diagn Ther, 2020 Endomyocardial fibrosis (EMF) is a neglected cardiovascular disease of poverty which carries a poor prognosis with no specific treatment affecting mainly children and young adults. Here, we report our 10-year experience in the therapeutic management and surgical treatment for EMF.From February 2009 to 2019 March, 55 patients diagnosed with EMF from our
Iroegbu CD, Chen W, Wu X, Wu M, Yang J.
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