INTRACARDIAC CALCIFICATION IN ENDOMYOCARDIAL FIBROSIS

Intracardiac electrocardiogram in endomyocardial fibrosis.

Endomyocardial fibrosis associated with massive calcification of the left ventricle.

This is the report of a rare case of endomyocardial fibrosis associated with massive calcification of the left ventricle in a male patient with dyspnea on great exertion, which began 5 years earlier and rapidly evolved. Due to lack of information and the absence of clinical signs that could characterize impairment of other organs, the case was initially managed as a disease with a pulmonary ori...

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

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...