Angiographic features of endomyocardial fibrosis

M-mode echocardiographic features of endomyocardial fibrosis.

M-mode echocardiographic findings are described in 21 patients with endomyocardial fibrosis. Features associated with right ventricular endomyocardial fibrosis include: (i) exaggerated motion and thickening of the anterior right ventricular wall; (ii) increased right ventricular end-diastolic dimension; and (iii) paradoxical septal motion. Pericardial effusion (viz an echo-free space behind the...

Clinical features of endomyocardial fibrosis of the right ventricle.

Endomyocardial fibrosis was first described from Uganda as a pathological entity distinct from other forms of heart disease by Davies (1948). The characteristic lesion of the disorder is a fibrosis of the endocardium and subendocardial tissues of the ventricles, which may involve the papillary muscles and cause valvular incompetence (Fig. 1). The incidence of endomyocardial fibrosis at the Mula...

Endomyocardial fibrosis

Endomyocardial fibrosis in Sudan: clinical and echocardiographic features

OBJECTIVE Endomyocardial fibrosis (EMF) is a rare disease and is often an underdiagnosed and forgotten cardiomyopathy. The objective of this study was to document the current frequency of EMF in Sudan by defining and selecting cases from patients attending the echocardiography laboratory. Additionally we aimed to create an EMF registry for Sudan. METHODS The study started in January 2007 and ...

Loeffler endomyocardial fibrosis.