DIFFUSE ENDOMYOCARDIAL SCLEROSIS

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...

Adrenocortical atrophy and diffuse cerebral sclerosis.

Forsyth, C. C., Forbes, M., and Cumings, J. N. (1971). Archives of Disease in Childhood, 46, 273. Adrenocortical atrophy and diffuse cerebral sclerosis. A boy, diagnosed as having Addison's disease due to idiopathic atrophy of the adrenal glands at the age of 7 years, developed the first evidence of what was originally thought to be 'Schilder's disease' at 8 years and 10 months. He died at 9 ye...

Addison's disease and diffuse cerebral sclerosis.

The rare combination of Addison's disease and diffuse cerebral sclerosis is now recognized to be something more than coincidence. Although only a small number of cases have been reported up to date, those cases have all followed a very similar pattern. This paper presents the case of a patient who is still alive and in whom, therefore, the diagnosis of diffuse cerebral sclerosis has not been co...

A Case Report of Small Cell Lung Carcinoma in a Patient with Progressive Diffuse Sclerosis

 Connective tissue diseases, including scleroderma, may be associated with an increased risk of lung cancer. The most common type of lung cancer associated with systemic sclerosis is adenocarcinoma or bronchoalveolar carcinoma, and small cell carcinoma is rare. This reports presents a 54-year-old non-smoker woman with a history of scleroderma who was examined due to aggravation of shortness of ...

[Endomyocardial biopsy].