ENDOMYOCARDIAL THICKENING.

[Endomyocardial biopsy].

Endomyocardial fibrosis

Endomyocardial Biopsy

Examination of fragments of right or left ventricular endomyocardium recovered during cardiac catheterization (endomyocardial biopsy) remains an important tool in the detection of transplant rejection and identification of specific disease process that cause primary myocardial dysfunction . This chapter focuses on the currently available techniques for endomyocardial biopsy and reviews the dise...

Diagnostic value of endomyocardial biopsy for endomyocardial fibrosis

Endomyocardial fibrosis (EMF) is a restrictive cardiomyopathy of unknown etiology. It is mainly prevalent in the tropical and subtropical countries. The aim of this study was to evaluate the diagnostic value of endomyocardial biopsy (EMB) for EMF, and detect the relationship between Coxsackie virus B3 (CVB3) and EMF in the Chinese patients. The right ventricular EMB was performed in 18 patients...

Diffuse endomyocardial sclerosis.

In recent years increasing attention has been focused upon a group of cases of congestive cardiac failure that present a distinctive cardiac morphology. There is diffuse thickening of the mural endocardium of one or both ventricles and fibrosis of the myocardium which is largely confined to the inner third of the ventricular wall; the coronary arteries are normal or show minimal arteriosclerosi...