Endomyocardial fibrosis: an update after 70 years

AO Mocumbi, JR Stothard, P Correia-de-Sá… - Current cardiology …, 2019 - Springer
Purpose of Review This review aims at highlighting the need to better understand the
pathogenesis and natural history of endomyocardial fibrosis when set against its changing …

[HTML][HTML] Endomyocardial fibrosis: still a mystery after 60 years

G Bukhman, J Ziegler, E Parry - PLoS neglected tropical diseases, 2008 - journals.plos.org
… and etiology of endomyocardial fibrosis. We relied primarily on … endomyocardial fibrosis
or “endomyocardial sclerosis” in the title. The volume of publications on endomyocardial fibrosis

Endomyocardial fibrosis: past, present, and future

AR Duraes, Y de Souza Lima Bitar, L Roever… - Heart failure …, 2020 - Springer
… ” in PubMed containing the term endomyocardial fibrosis but apparently only 5 clinical trials
… the term “endomyocardial fibrosis” bears similarity to the generic term “fibrosis,” for example. …

Tropical endomyocardial fibrosis: natural history, challenges, and perspectives

A Grimaldi, AO Mocumbi, J Freers, M Lachaud… - Circulation, 2016 - Am Heart Assoc
… of endomyocardial fibrosis was made in the presence of 2 major criteria or 1 major criterion
associated with 2 minor criteria. A total score of <8 indicates mild endomyocardial fibrosis; a …

Clinical course of endomyocardial fibrosis.

PN Gupta, MS Valiathan, KG Balakrishnan, CC Kartha… - Heart, 1989 - heart.bmj.com
… of 145 patients with endomyocardial fibrosis who were followed up … The bleak prognosis of
endomyocardial fibrosis did not … Endomyocardial fibrosis has been extensively characterised …

Endomyocardial fibrosis: diagnosis and management

SI Khalil - Journal of Vascular Diagnostics and Interventions, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Endomyocardial fibrosis (EMF) is a form of restrictive cardiomyopathy of unknown etiology,
characterized by endocardial fibrosis of the apices and inflow tracts of the right ventricle, left …

The pathology of endomyocardial fibrosis in Uganda

JNP Davies, JD Ball - British Heart Journal, 1955 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
… All hearts showed more or less fibrosis in the myocardium, and it is for this reason that we
use the term endomyocardial fibrosis. In these fibrous bands many small blood vessels were …

Surgery for endomyocardial fibrosis revisited

F Moraes, C Lapa, S Hazin, E Tenorio… - European journal of …, 1999 - academic.oup.com
… Althaus (Bern, Switzerland): In your very impressive series, endomyocardial fibrosis
As you certainly know, in other reports endomyocardial fibrosis is affecting the left ventricle …

Diagnosis and management of endomyocardial fibrosis

A Beaton, AO Mocumbi - Cardiology Clinics, 2017 - cardiology.theclinics.com
Endomyocardial fibrosis (EMF), one of the world’s most neglected cardiovascular diseases,
remains an important cause of restrictive cardiomyopathy. Worldwide prevalence is …

A population study of endomyocardial fibrosis in a rural area of Mozambique

AO Mocumbi, MB Ferreira, D Sidi… - New England Journal …, 2008 - Mass Medical Soc
… of endomyocardial fibrosis on the basis of features of advanced disease and pathologic
features of early stages described in postmortem studies. Endomyocardial fibrosis was …