Tapioca Cardiomyopathy: Curse of Cassava Endomyocardial Fibrosis

Eosinophilic Cardiomyopathy with Endomyocardial Fibrosis

Echocardiographic diagnosis and evaluation of cardiomyopathies: idiopathic hypertrophic subaortic stenosis, Chagas' heart disease and endomyocardial fibrosis.

Echocardiographic investigations on patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy with obstruction have been detailed and compared with the changes found in sixty patients with chronic Chagas' 'cardiomyopathy'. These changes are similar to those encountered in congestive cardiomyopathy. Endomyocardial fibrosis is rare in Venezuela, but six patients have been found in that country and the echocardio...

Coexistence of apical hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and endomyocardial fibrosis with calcification: diagnosis using multimodality imaging

A 48-year-old man from West Africa was evaluated for dyspnea. Echocardiography showed an echolucent mass at the left ventricular apex surrounded by a dense ridge of tissue, suggesting endomyocardial fibrosis (EMF). Doppler echocardiography showed restrictive hemodynamics and intramyocardial coronary blood flow at the hypertrophied apex, suggesting apical hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (ApHCM) with...

Endomyocardial fibrosis: A form of endemic restrictive cardiomyopathy

Endomyocardial fibrosis is a form of endemic restrictive cardiomyopathy that affects mainly children and adolescents, and is geographically restricted to some poor areas of Africa, Latin America and Asia. It is a condition with high morbidity and mortality, for which no effective therapy is available. Although several hypotheses have been proposed as triggers or causal factors for the disease, ...

Endomyocardial biopsy in diagnosis of cardiomyopathies.

The Konno bioptome, adapted to the intracardiac catheter, has been used in 64 patients in the differential diagnosis ofcardiomyopathies, as an additional diagnostic method during standard right heart catheterization and angiocardiography. In the specific instance of endomyocardial fibrosis the Konno biopsy enables histological diagnosis in life. Not surprisingly, in advanced cases dense collage...