Endomyocardial fibrosis in infancy

Endomyocardial fibrosis in infancy.

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 pulmonary hypertension was confirmed and left ventricular inflow tract obstruction was suspected. The patient underwent surgical treatment at ...

Endomyocardial fibrosis

Electrocardiogram in Endomyocardial Fibrosis

Endomyocardial fibrosis (EMF) is a distinct obliterative cardiomyopathy characterized anatomically by right/left/bi ventricular endocardial fibrotic thickening and varying degrees of obliteration of the ventricular cavity. Chamber obliteration leads to diastolic restriction to ventricular filling and thus diastolic ventricular dysfunction. Involvement of the chordae tendinae and papillary muscl...

Endomyocardial fibrosis in Africa.

Endomyocardial fibrosis (EMF) is a disease of the rain-forest belt in Africa. There is general agreement as to its pathology in the acute phase, but this is difficult to diagnose clinically. The aetiology is still unknown although there are reports which suggest that eosinophilic endomyocardial disease may be the cause. Further studies are needed to define EMF in its acute stage and find out ho...

Endomyocardial Fibrosis in Britain.

Fibrosis of the endocardium and myocardium, in the absence of disease of the coronary arteries, still receives scant attention in the standard medical textbooks. It has been recognized for many years as a comparatively uncommon complication of collagen diseases, infiltrative diseases (amyloid, haemochromatosis, von Gierke's disease), beriberi, Friedreich's ataxia and the muscular dystrophies, a...