Idiopathic Cardiomegaly and Endomyocardial Fibrosis

Idiopathic cardiomegaly in Ceylon. Congestive cardiac failure, cardiomegaly, hepatomegaly, and portal fibrosis associated with malnutrition.

Cardiomyopathy or primary myocardial disease is being recognized with increasing frequency and different clinical syndromes belonging to this group of diseases have been described from various parts of the world. Amongst the causes reported are familial, inflammatory, allergic, toxic, nutritional, metabolic, cardiomyopathy associated with various systemic diseases, blood dyscrasias, collagen, m...

Familial idiopathic cardiomegaly.

AMONG CAUSES of cardiac enlargement Of obscure origin that confront the clinician and pathologist alike are subendocardial fibroelastosis, inflammatory myocardiopathies, glycogen-storage disease, amyloidosis, muscular subaortic stenosis,' asymmetrical hypertrophy of the heart,2 idiopathic myocardiopathy,3 and familial cardiomegaly. Familial cardiomegaly, originally named in 1949 by Evans,4 has ...

Familial Idiopathic Cardiomegaly By WAYNE

AMONG CAUSES of cardiac enlargement Of obscure origin that confront the clinician and pathologist alike are subendocardial fibroelastosis, inflammatory myocardiopathies, glycogen-storage disease, amyloidosis, muscular subaortic stenosis,' asymmetrical hypertrophy of the heart,2 idiopathic myocardiopathy,3 and familial cardiomegaly. Familial cardiomegaly, originally named in 1949 by Evans,4 has ...

Massive left ventricular calcification: related to endomyocardial fibrosis or idiopathic?

In a recent issue of Revista Española de Cardiologia, Flores-Rı́os et al briefly reported the case of a 66-year-old woman with massive left ventricular calcification and concluded that the underlying cardiac disease was endomyocardial fibrosis. However, we consider that their conclusion is questionable. Endomyocardial fibrosis is a restrictive cardiomyopathy of unknown etiology that occurs almos...

Endomyocardial fibrosis