title: Surgical treatment of biventricular endomyocardial fibrosis. A case report.
abstract: The clinical, fono-mechano-echocardiographic, hemodynamic and angiographic findings before and after surgery of a patient who developed bilateral extensive endomyocardial fibrosis probably secondary to filariasis, are described. The patient was surgically treated by endocardial decortication and insertion of a mitral and tricuspid Ionescu Shiley low profile valve, which was followed by a marked subjective and objective improvement during a follow-up period of 42 months.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiology, U.Z. Gasthuisberg, Leuven, Belgium.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Dejaegher
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Stalpaert
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: De Geest
mesh_terms: D000792:Angiography; D004452:Echocardiography; D004562:Electrocardiography; D004719:Endomyocardial Fibrosis / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery*; D005368:Filariasis / Q000150:complications; D006350:Heart Valve Prosthesis; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D008943:Mitral Valve; D010701:Phonocardiography; D014261:Tricuspid Valve