title: Recent trends in the surgical treatment of endomyocardial fibrosis.
abstract: Several modifications of the traditional treatment of endomyocardial fibrosis have been made based on a personal experience of 51 surgical cases and on the reports of others in the surgical literature during the last decade. Description of these techniques and the author's current concept of the pathological processes are reported herein.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, Institute of Cardiology, Abidjan, Ivory Coast.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Métras
authors.forename: A Q
authors.initials: AQ
authors.lastname: Coulibaly
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Ouattara
mesh_terms: D004699:Endocardium / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D004719:Endomyocardial Fibrosis / Q000150:complications / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D006352:Heart Ventricles / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D008722:Methods