Echocardiography accurately assesses the pathological abnormalities of chronic endomyocardial fibrosis

International Journal of Cardiovascular Imaging

Volumn 27, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 955-964

  Mocumbi, A O ^a,b   Carrilho, C ^b   Sarathchandra, P ^c   Ferreira, M B ^a,b   Yacoub, M ^c,d   Burke, M ^e  

^a Instituto do Coracao Maputo   (Mozambique)

^b EDUARDO MONDLANE UNIVERSITY   (Mozambique)

^c Heart Science Centre   (United Kingdom)

^d IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e HAREFIELD HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Echocardiography; Endomyocardial fibrosis; Pathology; Surgical findings

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN; HYALIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART HYPERTROPHY; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HEART MUSCLE BIOPSY; HEART MUSCLE FIBROSIS; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IN VIVO STUDY; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; MALE; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SCHOOL CHILD; SURGERY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRICUSPID VALVE REGURGITATION;

ADOLESCENT; BIOPSY; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; CHILD; CHRONIC DISEASE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; ENDOMYOCARDIAL FIBROSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MYOCARDIUM; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 80054973174     PISSN: 15695794     EISSN: 15730743     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10554-010-9753-6     Document Type: Article

References (17)

1. AO Mocumbi MB Ferreira D Sidi MH Yacoub 2008 A population study of endomyocardial fibrosis in a rural area of Mozambique N Eng J Med 369 43 49 10.1056/NEJMoa0708629
2. S Iglezias L Benvenuti F Calabrese, et al. 2008 Endomyocardial fibrosis: pathological and molecular findings of surgically resected ventricular endomyocardium Virchows Arch 453 233 241 18762973 10.1007/s00428-008-0652-3 1:CAS:528:DC%2BD1cXhtFajurfP
3. SA de Oliveira AC Pereira Barreto C Mady LA Dallan PL da Luz AD Jatene F Pileggi 1990 Surgical treatment of endomyocardial fibrosis: a new approach J Am Coll Cardiol 16 5 1246 1251 2229774 10.1016/0735-1097(90)90561-3
4. DH Connor K Somers NSR Hutt WC Manion PGD D'Arbela 1967 Endomyocardial fibrosis in Uganda (Davies' disease) Part I Am Heart J 74 5 687 709 4861733 10.1016/0002-8703(67)90509-1 1:STN:280:DyaF1c%2FhslelsA%3D%3D
5. DH Connor K Somers NSR Hutt WC Manion P D'Arbela 1968 Endomyocardial fibrosis in Uganda (Davies' disease) Part II Am Heart J 74 5 107 124 10.1016/0002-8703(68)90122-1
6. AG Shaper MSR Hutt RM Coles 1968 Necropsy study of endomyocardial fibrosis and rheumatic heart disease in Uganda 1950-1965 Brit Heart J 30 391 401 5651254 10.1136/hrt.30.3.391 1:STN:280:DyaF1c3kt12ltw%3D%3D
7. P Chopra J Narula KK Talwar V Kumar ML Bhatia 1990 Histomorphologic characteristics of endomyocardial fibrosis: an endomyocardial biopsy study Hum Pathol 21 6 613 616 2351390 10.1016/S0046-8177(96)90007-6 1:STN:280: DyaK3c3nslSkuw%3D%3D
8. ZA Andrade ARL Teixeira 1973 Changes in the vasculature in endomyocardial fibrosis and their possible significance Am Heart J 86 152 158 4124230 10.1016/0002-8703(73)90238-X 1:STN:280:DyaE3s3it1OktQ%3D%3D
9. VM Lira 1996 Endomyocardial fibrosis pathology Arq Bras Cardiol 67 4 273 277 9181728 1:STN:280:DyaK2szisFKktw%3D%3D
10. CL Santos CR Moraes FL Santos, et al. 2001 Endomyocardial fibrosis in children Cardiol Young 11 2 205 209 11293740 10.1017/S1047951101000129 1:STN:280:DC%2BD3MvjsVOltA%3D%3D
11. LR Saraiva RW Carneiro MB Arruda D Brindeiro V Lira 1999 Mitral valve disease with rheumatic appearance in the presence of left ventricular endomyocardial fibrosis Arq Bras Cardiol 72 3 330 332 10.1590/S0066- 782X1999000300006
12. Cheung SC, Chan CWS. (2008) Insights of prognostication of Davies disease: What could we learn from serial magnetic resonance imaging studies? Int J Cardiol (epub PMID: 19144428)
13. B Decker S Sender G Gros 1996 Membrane-associated carbonic anhydrase IV in skeletal muscle-subcellular localization Histochem Cell Biol 106 405 411 8911968 10.1007/BF02473299 1:CAS:528:DyaK28XmtFagtb8%3D
14. A Frustaci AK Abdual G Possati U Manzoli 1989 Persisting hypereosinophilia and myocardial activity in the fibrotic stage of endomyocardial disease Chest 96 674 675 2766831 10.1378/chest.96.3.674 1:STN:280:DyaL1Mzls1Slug%3D%3D
15. JD Ball AW Williams JNP Davies 1954 Endomyocardial fibrosis Lancet 1 1049 1054 10.1016/S0140-6736(54)91619-0
16. Edington GM, Gilles HM (1976) Pathology in the tropics. Edward Arnold Publishers, London, pp 357-365
17. F Jaiyesimi 1982 Controversies and advances in endomyocardial fibrosis: a review Afr J Med Med Sci 11 37 46 6301241 1:STN:280:DyaL3s7nsFWqtw%3D%3D